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Education and Gendered Citizenship in Pakistan

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  1. M. Ayaz Naseem
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Part of the book series: Postcolonial Studies in Education (PCSE)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Contextualizing Articulations of Women in Pakistan

    • M. Ayaz Naseem
    Pages 1-12

  3. Michel Foucault and I: Applying Poststructuralism to the Constitution of Gendered Subjects in Pakistan’s Educational Discourse

    • M. Ayaz Naseem
    Pages 13-33

  4. The Education System and Educational Policy Discourse in Pakistan

    • M. Ayaz Naseem
    Pages 35-50

  5. Women and the State in Pakistan: A History of the Present

    • M. Ayaz Naseem
    Pages 51-63

  6. Subject Positioning and Subjectivity Constitution in Pakistan

    • M. Ayaz Naseem
    Pages 65-81

  7. Educational Discourse and the Constitution of Gendered Subjectivities in Pakistan

    • M. Ayaz Naseem
    Pages 83-101

  8. Classification, Normalization, and the Construction of the “Other” in Pakistan’s Educational Discourse

    • M. Ayaz Naseem
    Pages 103-118

  9. Education and Gendered Citizenship in Pakistan

    • M. Ayaz Naseem
    Pages 119-128

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 129-171
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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.

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

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