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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. 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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Education and Gendered Citizenship in Pakistan
• Author: M. Ayaz Naseem
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 171
• EAN: 9780230618534
• ISBN: 0230618537
• ID: 04556078
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 332 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 159 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. January 2011

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