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Islamic Traditions of Modernity Gender, Class, and Islam in a Transnational Women’s Education Project

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Women’s education has been central to discourses that have sought to modernize developing and Muslim societies. Based on ethnographic data collected from women teachers from rural and low-income communities of Pakistan, the article shows how being a parhi likhi (educated) woman implies acquiring a privileged subject position making claims to middle-class and Islamic morality, and engaging in specific struggles within, rather than against, the institutions of family, community, and Islam. This focus on the lived experiences of educated Muslim women complicates the prevalent narrative of modernity that presents women’s education and gender empowerment as an expression of individual women’s choice and free will against the oppressive frameworks of family, community, and Islam.

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GENDER & SOCIETY

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Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications., 2015

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Language

English

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0891-2432

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Volume 29, Issue 1 February 2015 , pages 98-121

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Gender
International development
Women’s education
Islam modernity

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