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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815074903321

Autore

Naseem M. Ayaz (Muhammad Ayaz), <1963->

Titolo

Education and gendered citizenship in Pakistan / / M. Ayaz Naseem

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

ISBN

1-283-62339-0

9786613935847

0-230-11791-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Macmillan's postcolonial studies in education

Disciplina

371.82209581

Soggetti

Women - Education - Pakistan

Sex discrimination in education - Pakistan

Educational equalization - Pakistan

Women - Pakistan - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Coverpage; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Urdu and Arabic Words; 1 Contextualizing Articulations of Women in Pakistan; 2 Michel Foucault and I: Applying Poststructuralism to the Constitution of Gendered Subjects in Pakistan's Educational Discourse; 3 The Education System and Educational Policy Discourse in Pakistan; 4 Women and the State in Pakistan: A History of the Present; 5 Subject Positioning and Subjectivity Constitution in Pakistan; 6 Educational Discourse and the Constitution of Gendered Subjectivities in Pakistan

7 Classification, Normalization, and the Construction of the "Other" in Pakistan's Educational Discourse8 Education and Gendered Citizenship in Pakistan; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book challenges the uncritical use of the long held dictum of the development discourse that education empowers women. Situated in the post-structuralist feminist position it argues that in its current state the educational discourse in Pakistan actually disempowers women.