by referring to burqa-wearing women as prisoners. Of course issues of dress in France, namely Muslim women’s dress, has layers and layers of nuance. (See, for one example, Joan Scott’s excellent book Politics of the Veil). But when I hear things like this, I can’t help but think that men should just learn to keep their thoughts on what women are wearing to themselves. It is difficult to imagine anything at all constructive resulting from France’s new investigation into the life of women wearing the veil.