This Paper explores the justifications for regulating modesty-related practices in liberal societies and uses two examples of modesty-related practices— the practice of wearing the hijab and the practice of separating men and women in buses—in order to demonstrate that modesty-related practices often rest on different rationales. Some of these rationales are oppressive and discriminatory while other are benign or even autonomy-enhancing. The multiplicity of meanings associated with modesty-related practices is a challenge to the policy maker. The Paper proposes that sometimes it is possible to transform the social meaning of modesty-related practices without transforming the practices themselves.
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Regulating Modesty-Related Practices
Alon Harel1
1The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor of Law, the Hebrew University.
Citation Information: Law & Ethics of Human Rights. Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages 213–236, ISSN (Online) 1938-2545, DOI: 10.2202/1938-2545.1006, January 2007
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- 2007-01-01
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