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Author Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, 1982- author.

Title Forging the Ideal Educated Girl The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia / Shenila Khoja-Moolji.

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Description 1 online resource (1 online resource.)
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Series Islamic humanities ; 1
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Islamic Humanities ; 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Girls education as a unifying discourse -- Forging sharif subjects -- Desirable and failed citizen-subjects -- The empowered girl -- Akbari and Asghari reappear -- Tracing storylines.
Access Open Access Unrestricted online access
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.
Local Note Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Subject Women -- South Asia -- Social conditions.
Women.
South Asia.
Social conditions.
Muslim women -- South Asia.
Muslim women.
Muslim women -- Education -- South Asia.
Muslim women -- Education.
Genre/Form Electronic books. .
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Project Muse, distributor.
Other Form: Print version: Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, 1982- author. Forging the ideal educated girl Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520298408 (DLC) 2018000776
ISBN 9780520970533
0520970535
9780520298408