Event Description
Quebec’s 2019 Bill 21 bars certain public servants from wearing religious symbols and requires uncovered faces in public services. Though framed as promoting neutrality and gender equality, it disproportionately impacts Muslim women. Drawing on feminist constitutionalism and critical multiculturalism, Dr. Vrinda Narain argues that the law recasts race as culture and religion, entrenching inequality under the guise of state neutrality.
Speaker
Professor Vrinda Narain’s research and teaching focus on constitutional law, social diversity and feminist legal theory.
She is the author of two books: Reclaiming the Nation: Muslim Women and the Law in India (University of Toronto Press, 2008) and Gender and Community: Muslim Women's Rights in India (University of Toronto Press, 2001).
Professor Vrinda Narain is the 2017 recipient of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice’s Charles D. Gonthier Research Fellowship. She was Associate Dean, Academic, at the Faculty of Law from 2016 to 2019.
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