Education and gendered citizenship in Pakistan
- M. Ayaz Naseem.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Physical description
- xvii, 171 p. ; 22 cm.
- Palgrave Macmillan's postcolonial studies in education.
Education Library (Cubberley)
LC2330 .N37 2010
- Unknown LC2330 .N37 2010
- Naseem, M. Ayaz (Muhammad Ayaz), 1963-
- Includes bibliographical references (p. -167) and index.
- Conceptual Framework Education System and the Educational Policy Discourse in Pakistan Women and the State in Pakistan: A History of the Present Educational Discourse and the Constitution of Gendered Subjectivities in Pakistan.
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Publisher's Summary
- 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. Furthermore, through a systematic examination of the educational discourse in Pakistan the book argues that the educational discourse (through curricula, textbooks and pedagogical practices) constitutes gendered identities and positions them in a way that exacerbates and intensifies inequalities between men and women on one hand and between the dominant and minority groups on the other. Gendered constitution and positioning of subjects also regulates the relationship between the subjects and the state in a way that women and minorities are excluded from the development and citizenship realms. Finally, it uncovers the mechanisms through which the educational discourse in Pakistan constitutes a militant nationalism and militaristic nationalistic subjects.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Publication date
- Palgrave Macmillan's postcolonial studies in education
- 9780230618534 (hardback)
- 0230618537 (hardback)