Forging the Ideal Educated Girl
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Forging the Ideal Educated Girl

The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia

  1. 204 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Forging the Ideal Educated Girl

The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia

About this book

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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.
  

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Half Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Illustrations
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1 Girls’ Education as a UnifyingĀ Discourse
  11. 2 Forging Sharif Subjects
  12. 3 Desirable and Failed Citizen-Subjects
  13. 4 The Empowered Girl
  14. 5 Akbari and Asghari Reappear
  15. 6 Tracing Storylines
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index