Gendered Paradoxes Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress

Name: Gendered Paradoxes Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress
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ISBN: 9780226006918

ISBN-10: 0226006913

ISBN-13: 9780226006918

Edition: 2012

Authors: Fida J. Adely

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In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has witnessed dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women. The resulting demographic picture there—highly educated women who still largely stay at home as mothers and caregivers—prompted the World Bank to label Jordan a “gender paradox.” In Gendered Paradoxes, Fida Adely shows that assessment to be a fallacy, taking readers into the rarely seen halls of a Jordanian public school—the al-Khatwa High School for Girls—and revealing the dynamic lives of its students, for whom such trends are far from…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction A Day in the Life of Nada



Ambiguous Times and Spaces



Jordan and the al-Khatwa Secondary School for Girls: People, Place, and Time



Performing Patriotism: Rituals and Moral Authority in a Jordanian High School



Who Is a Good Muslim? Making Proper Faith in a Girls' High School



Making Girls into Respectable Women



Education for What? Women, Work, and Development in Jordan



Conclusion


Notes


References


Index