Wokism : The Question of The Veil On the Intersectionality of Radical Feminism and The Hijab

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Supervisors

Yzerbyt, Vincent ; Dujardin, Louise

Faculty

Faculté de psychologie, logopédie, sexologie et des sciences de la famille

Degree label

Master [120] en sciences psychologiques, à finalité approfondie

Abstract

This study examines the social perception of intersecting minority identities, specifically focusing on the combination of hijab-wearing and radical feminist identification, two identities that are stereotypically perceived as incongruent. Grounded in the Stereotype Content Model (Fiske et al., 2002) and the two-dimension/four-facet model of social evaluation (Barbedor et al., 2024), this research investigates whether the combination of these identities produces additive or intersectional effects on social perception. Using a vignette-based experimental design, participants evaluated profiles which vary in identity (hijab only, radical feminist only and hijab-wearing radical feminist), with perceptions measured across four facets (ability, assertiveness, friendliness, and morality), using both the two-dimension/four-facet scale (Barbedor et al., 2024) and the 90 trait-item scale developed by Petsko and Bodenhausen (2019). Two competing models are tested: an additive model, which predicts that negative evaluations accumulate across identities, and an intersectional model, which predicts that the combination produces a distinct perception. This research contributes to the growing literature on intersectional stereotyping and addresses the empirical gap in the social perception of women navigating intersecting religious and feminist identities.