Keywords:
Muslim women-Education-South Asia
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Muslim women-South Asia
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Women-South Asia-Social conditions
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Muslim women-Education-South Asia..
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Muslim women-South Asia..
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Women-South Asia-Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Britisch-Indien
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Pakistan
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Indien
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Mädchenbildung
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Frauenbild
Description / Table of Contents:
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (220 pages)
ISBN:
9780520970533
Series Statement:
Islamic Humanities Ser
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=5427477
DDC:
370.8422
Language:
English
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