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

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Author / Creator:Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, 1982- author.
Imprint:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
©2018
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 202 pages)
Language:English
Series:Islamic Humanities Ser.
Islamic Humanities.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11736565
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ISBN:9780520970533
0520970535
9780520298408
0520298403
9780520298408
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 12, 2018).
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.
Other form:Print version: Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, 1982- Forging the ideal educated girl. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520298408