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Gendered paradoxes : educating Jordanian women in nation, faith, and progress / Fida J. Adely.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adely, Fida J., 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Education--Jordan.
- Women.
- Young women--Jordan--Social conditions.
- Young women.
- Girls' schools--Jordan.
- Girls' schools.
- Social conditions.
- Women--Education.
- Jordan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 228 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2012]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In Gendered Paradoxes Fida Adely takes readers into the halls of a Jordanian public school-the al-Khatwa High School for Girls-to examine how the young women there are facing the great social and economic challenges of today's Jordan. The demographic picture in Jordan-with highly educated women largely remaining outside the formal job market for most of their adult lives-prompted the World Bank in 2005 to label the country a "gender paradox," but Adely argues that this assessment is a fallacy. Showing that the important place of education in Jordan should not be calculated solely through an employment lens, she raises fundamental questions about what constitutes development, progress, and empowerment, not just for the girls of al-Khatwa High School but for women throughout the Middle East. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- A day in the life of Nada
- Ambiguous times and spaces
- Jordan and the al-Khatwa Secondary School for Girls : people, place, and time
- Performing patriotism : rituals and moral authority in a Jordanian high school
- Who is a good Muslim? : making proper faith in a girls' high school
- Making girls into respectable women
- Education for what? : women, work, and development in Jordan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-215) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780226006925
- 0226006921
- Publisher Number:
- 99970382810
- 7697768
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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