New Book: Forging the Ideal Educated Girl

Dear colleagues,



I am pleased to share that my book, '*Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The
Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia*,' was recently
published by the University of California Press.



An electronic version is available for free download
<https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.52/>. To get a 40%
discount on the paperwork version, you can use the code 17W1863 on the UC
Press website
<https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520298408/forging-the-ideal-educated-girl>
.



Thank you for your support!
With regards,

Shenila

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Shenila Khoja-Moolji

Website: https://bowdoin.academia.edu/ShenilaKhojaMoolji

"A brilliant and unprecedented study. Historically grounded and
methodologically sophisticated, this book is essential reading for anyone
interested in the history of Muslims in South Asia and the gendered
complexities of education."
*—Jamal J. Elias, Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities,
University of Pennsylvania*
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"This ambitious and pathbreaking genealogical study of the circulation and
political uses of the dense figure of the educated South Asian Muslim
woman/girl is brilliantly executed and utterly timely. Exquisitely attuned
to the complexities of South Asia—colonial, postcolonial, and
contemporary—Khoja-Moolji has mined the cultural archives of the past and
present. With an unerring eye for the significant detail, enviable
analytical clarity, and a sustained commitment to offering alternatives,
she has written an exemplary book destined to become a classic. It promises
to transform our thinking, not just in the scholarly fields of South Asian
and Pakistani studies or transnational feminism but in policy and the
popular imagination."
*—Lila Abu-Lughod, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science,
Columbia University*

*In Forging the Ideal Educated Girl*, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the
figure of the ‘educated girl’ to examine the evolving politics of
educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and
Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associated with calls
for women’s and girls’ education and argues that such advocacy is not
simply about access to education but, more crucially, concerned with
producing ideal Muslim woman-/girl-subjects with specific relationships to
the patriarchal family, paid work, Islam, and the nation-state. Thus,
discourses on girls’/ women’s education are sites for the construction of
not only gender but also class relations, religion, and the nation.

*Shenila Khoja-Moolji *is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and
Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College. Her work examines the interplay of
gender, race, religion, and power in transnational contexts, particularly
in relation to Muslim populations.

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