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- Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia
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- 2018
- Published by: University of California Press
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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.
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.
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- Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- 2. Forging Sharif Subjects
- pp. 23-59
- 4. The Empowered Girl
- pp. 97-123
- 5. Akbari and Asghari Reappear
- pp. 124-144
- 6. Tracing Storylines
- pp. 145-158
- Bibliography
- pp. 181-194
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ISBN
9780520970533
Related ISBN(s)
9780520298408
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OCLC
1053508099
Pages
204
Launched on MUSE
2018-11-16
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
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