Forging the Ideal Educated Girl
تكوين الفتاة المتعلمة المثالية
Book Title Forging the Ideal Educated Girl Author Name Shenila Khoja-Moolji Publishing house University of California Press; First edition Country - city USA Date of issue June 1, 2018 Number of pages 204 Buy the book Translation rights
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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.
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.
Bibliographic Data
| Publisher | University of California Press; First edition |
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| Country | USA |
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| Published | 2018 |
| Language | 0 |
| Pages | 204 pages |
| Translation | Not Translated |
