Veiling the 'Other,' Unveiling Our 'Selves': Reading Media Images of the Hijab Psychoanalytically To Move beyond Tolerance.

Y

14

Diversity (Student); Females; Foreign Countries; High School Students; High Schools; Identification (Psychology); Islam; Mass Media; Mass Media Effects; Muslims; Psychiatry; Religious Discrimination; Stereotypes

0380-2361

Examines media reports about the expulsion of a girl from a Montreal (Quebec, Canada) high school for wearing the "hijab" (Islamic head covering or garment). Shows, using psychoanalytic concepts, how the media images created a sense of self for Montreal's Francophone and Anglophone communities. Explores the question of tolerance and the dynamics of stereotyping. (SLD)

2000

EJ596342