Forging the Ideal Educated Girl The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia
Khoja-Moolji, Shenila
Forging the Ideal Educated Girl The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia - Oakland University of California Press 2018 - 1 electronic resource (218 p.) - Islamic Humanities 1 .
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In Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the 'educated girl' to examine the evolving politics of educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associated with calls for women's and girls' education and argues that such advocacy is not simply about access to education but, more crucially, concerned with producing ideal Muslim woman-/girl-subjects with specific relationships to the patriarchal family, paid work, Islam, and the nation-state. Thus, discourses on girls'/women's education are sites for the construction of not only gender but also class relations, religion, and the nation.
Creative Commons
English
9780520298408; 9780520970533 luminos.52
10.1525/luminos.52 doi
Anthropology
Gender studies, gender groups
Sociology
Female education gender girls education Islam Muslim Pakistan Social class
Forging the Ideal Educated Girl The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia - Oakland University of California Press 2018 - 1 electronic resource (218 p.) - Islamic Humanities 1 .
Open Access
In Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the 'educated girl' to examine the evolving politics of educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associated with calls for women's and girls' education and argues that such advocacy is not simply about access to education but, more crucially, concerned with producing ideal Muslim woman-/girl-subjects with specific relationships to the patriarchal family, paid work, Islam, and the nation-state. Thus, discourses on girls'/women's education are sites for the construction of not only gender but also class relations, religion, and the nation.
Creative Commons
English
9780520298408; 9780520970533 luminos.52
10.1525/luminos.52 doi
Anthropology
Gender studies, gender groups
Sociology
Female education gender girls education Islam Muslim Pakistan Social class