The Washington Post
France’s highest administrative court, the Conseil d’État, overturned the so-called burkini bans in 26 of the country’s coastal towns and cities.
France’s Burkini Debate
For Professor Joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science, the burkini embodies the achievement of a secular, integrated society. The women who wear burkinis, she said, cannot be called oppressed. They are not the women subservient to a conservative Islam; they are the women who sit on beaches unsupervised by men, enjoying their leisure time in mixed social company. Read more http://ow.ly/p5Ga303Gi57.
