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

• Autore: Naseem M. Ayaz (Muhammad Ayaz), <1963->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.82209581
• Soggetto topico: Women - Education - Pakistan; Sex discrimination in education - Pakistan; Educational equalization - Pakistan; Women - Pakistan - Social conditions
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Education and gendered citizenship in Pakistan
• ISBN: 1-283-62339-0; 9786613935847; 0-230-11791-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815074903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Postcolonial Studies in Education