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ajiss-1490	Bullock, Katherine	Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space by John R. Bowen (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 290 pages.)	2008.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1052	34	45	The French law banning the hijab from public schools presents itself as just as baffling as any non-western custom. So with a catchy title designed to appeal to this widespread bafflement, the author seeks to explain the intellectual underpinnings and political processes that led to this ban- ning of “ostentatious” religious symbols in public schools on March 15, 2004.	cache/ajiss-1490.pdf	txt/ajiss-1490.txt