Forging the Ideal Educated Girl

The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-29840-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Reihe: Islamic Humanities

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Khoja-Moolji, Shenila

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Soziologie, Bildungssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. Girls’ Education as a Unifying Discourse
2. Forging Sharif Subjects
3. Desirable and Failed Citizen-Subjects
4. The Empowered Girl
5. Akbari and Asghari Reappear
6. Tracing Storylines

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shenila Khoja-Moolji is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College. Her work examines the interplay of gender, race, religion, and power in transnational contexts, particularly in relation to Muslim populations.