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Book/Printed Material Forging the ideal educated girl : the production of desirable subjects in Muslim South Asia

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Title

  • Forging the ideal educated girl : the production of desirable subjects in Muslim South Asia

Summary

  • "In Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces 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 by arguing that such advocacy is not simply about access to education but, more crucially, is concerned with molding girls into the kinds of subjects needed to advance societal projects such as nation building, modernization, and solidifying religious identity. Such concerns are often driven by material and cultural struggles for power. Thus, discourses around education for girls and women are sites for the construction not only of gender identity but also of class, religion, and the nation"--Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, 1982- author

Created / Published

  • Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
  • ©2017

Contents

  • Girls education as a unifying discourse -- Forging sharif subjects -- Desirable and failed citizen-subjects -- The empowered girl -- Akbari and Asghari reappear -- Tracing storylines.

Headings

  • -  Muslim women--Education--South Asia
  • -  Muslim women--South Asia
  • -  Women--South Asia--Social conditions

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LC2410.5

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018005177

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  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

  • image
  • epub

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Chicago citation style:

Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, Author. Forging the ideal educated girl: the production of desirable subjects in Muslim South Asia. [Oakland, California: University of California Press, ©, 2017] Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2018005177/.

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Khoja-Moolji, S. (2017) Forging the ideal educated girl: the production of desirable subjects in Muslim South Asia. [Oakland, California: University of California Press, ©] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2018005177/.

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Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, Author. Forging the ideal educated girl: the production of desirable subjects in Muslim South Asia. [Oakland, California: University of California Press, ©, 2017] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2018005177/>.