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Title	Veil as Stigma: Exploring the Role of Representations in Muslim Women's Management of Threatened Social Identity
Authors	Chapman, M.
Abstract	This study extends research on the relations between social representations and social identities through an exploration of how Muslim women manage the stigma of veiling. Based on analysis of individual and group interviews among Muslim women in Denmark and the UK, the study highlights the dialectical nature of social identity as constructed through and against others’ representations of social groups and the norms of valuing they impose. It shows how, for the women here, the reinforcement of a shared sense of Muslim identity goes together with re-evaluation of aspects of that identity,principally in response to representations of the veil that deny Muslim women agency and cast them as oppressed. It shows how norms of gender and agency are in this process variously resisted and affirmed, resulting in the reframing of gendered religious values. Theoretically, the study argues that an account of the role of representations in the construction of identity challenges the inter-group framework of existing approaches to threatened social identity and sheds light on intersectional dynamics of identity.
Keywords	Muslim women
	veil
	headscarf
	stigma
	social identity
Journal	Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
Journal citation	26 (4), pp. 354-366
ISSN	1052-9284
Year	2016
Publisher	Wiley
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2269
Published	11 Mar 2016

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