TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khoja-Moolji,Shenila
TI  - Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia
T2  - Islamic Humanities
SN  - 9780520298408; 9780520970533
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Oakland
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Gender studies, gender groups
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Female education
KW  - gender
KW  - girls education
KW  - Islam
KW  - Muslim
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - Social class
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29714
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/0f8298e9-4de8-437e-9c3e-a689ab1e23ae/UCP-052-moolji.pdf
ER  -