Forging the ideal educated girl : the production of desirable subjects in Muslim South Asia / Shenila Khoja-Moolji.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, 1982- author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Islamic Humanities ; 1.

Islamic humanities ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim women.

Muslim women--Education.

South Asia.

Muslim women--Education--South Asia.

Muslim women--South Asia.

Women--South Asia--Social conditions.

Women.

Social conditions.

Women--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xiii, 202 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [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.

Contents:

Girls education as a unifying discourse

Forging sharif subjects

Desirable and failed citizen-subjects

The empowered girl

Akbari and Asghari reappear

Tracing storylines.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, 1982- Forging the ideal educated girl.

ISBN:

9780520298408

0520298403

OCLC:

1022075170