Education, Poverty and Gender: Schooling Muslim Girls in India

by Latika Gupta

This book investigates the nature of identity formation among economically backward adolescent Muslim girls in northern India by focusing on the interstitial spaces of the 'home' and 'school'. It examines issues of religion, patriarchy and education, to interrogate the relationship between pedagogy and religion in South Asia.

Using a multi-disciplinary approach and multiple research methods, the volume makes significant contribution to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138900842
• ISBN13: 9781138900844
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.6"