Education and Gendered Citizenship in Pakistan

by M. Naseem

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230618534
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/19/2011
Series:	Postcolonial Studies in Education
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	171
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

AYAZ NASEEM Assistant Professor of Education, Concordia University, Canada.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xiii

List of Urdu and Arabic Words xv

1 Contextualizing Articulations of Women in Pakistan 1

2 Michel Foucault and I: Applying Poststructuralism to the Constitution of Gendered Subjects in Pakistan's Educational Discourse 13

3 The Education System and Educational Policy Discourse in Pakistan 35

4 Women and the State in Pakistan: A History of the Present 51

5 Subject Positioning and Subjectivity Constitution in Pakistan 65

6 Educational Discourse and the Constitution of Gendered Subjectivities in Pakistan 83

7 Classification, Normalization, and the Construction of the "Other" in Pakistan's Educational Discourse 103

8 Education and Gendered Citizenship in Pakistan 119

Notes 129

References 143

Index 169