Contemporary Muslim Girlhoods in India: A Study of Social Justice, Identity and Agency in Assam

ISBN-13: 9780367728359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 140 str.

Saba Hussain

Opis

Based on empirical research in India, this book presents a post-colonial feminist analysis of subjectivities available to Muslim girls and the ways in which they are inhabited and negotiated, through an examination of government education policies together with the narratives of teachers and parents.

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Acknowledgement; 1. Introduction;  2. Social justice, politics of authorisation, and agency: theoretical conundrums in the study of contemporary Muslim girlhoods;  3. Framing ‘difference’: Muslim girls and educational policy regime in India;  4. Teachers’ narratives: framing ‘difference’ as pathological;  5. Good girls and good families: symbolic capital and cultural authorisation;  6. Reflexive selves: Muslim girls’ (re)constructions of ‘self’;  7. Conclusion: from narratives ‘about’ Muslim girls to Muslim girls’ narratives of ‘self’;  Bibliography; Index;

O autorze

Saba Hussain is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK.