Gendered paradoxes
Subtitle: educating Jordanian women in nation, faith, and progress
By: Fida J. Adely
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226006901; 9780226006918
Subjects: Social conditions; Young women; Education; Girls' schools; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A day in the life of Nada; title: Ambiguous times and spaces; title: Jordan and the al-Khatwa Secondary School for Girls : people, place, and time; title: Performing patriotism : rituals and moral authority in a Jordanian high school; title: Who is a good Muslim? : making proper faith in a girls' high school; title: Making girls into respectable women; title: Education for what? : women, work, and development in Jordan.