Forging the ideal educated girl : the production of desirable subjects in Muslim South Asia
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Forging the ideal educated girl : the production of desirable subjects in Muslim South Asia
(Islamic humanities / series editor, Shahzad Bashir, 1)
University of California Press, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-193) and index
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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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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
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