TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khoja-Moolji,Shenila
TI  - Forging the Ideal Educated Girl
SN  - 9780520970533
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Social Science / Anthropology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social Science / Gender Studies
KW  - Social Science / Sociology
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/4e4b8828-c13c-4df9-9b65-696aab32d2c1
ER  -