Why the French Don't Like Headscarves

David Bell escreve sobre o livro Why the French Don't Like Headscarves de John R. Bowen, professor Washington University in St. Louis: "hostility between the Catholic Church and the secular Republic marks broad swaths of French history. But of course it is not nuns who have been targeted by the recent law banning "ostentatious signs of religion" from French public schools, which John R. Bowen has put at the center of his lucid and thought-provoking book. The controversial French women at issue are headscarf-wearing Muslim schoolgirls".