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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 undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women. In this book, the author shows that assessment to be a fallacy.

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"Gendered Paradoxes explores schools as sites for competing visions, expectations, dreams, and aspirations related to the meaning of womanhood, marriage, love, respectability, and morality. Fida J. Adely forcefully takes us beyond the view of the Arab woman as a 'passive' and 'oppressed' victim, sharing with us the words and experiences of a strong and vibrant group of young women who are actively working with and against contradictory and ambiguous norms that define notions of success, respectability, progress, and happiness." (Farha Ghannam, Swarthmore College)"

Gendered Paradoxes

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 28 August 2012
      ISBN-13 9780226006918
      978-0226006918
      ISBN-10 0226006913
      Also in:
      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women. In this book, the author shows that assessment to be a fallacy.

      Trade Review
      "Gendered Paradoxes explores schools as sites for competing visions, expectations, dreams, and aspirations related to the meaning of womanhood, marriage, love, respectability, and morality. Fida J. Adely forcefully takes us beyond the view of the Arab woman as a 'passive' and 'oppressed' victim, sharing with us the words and experiences of a strong and vibrant group of young women who are actively working with and against contradictory and ambiguous norms that define notions of success, respectability, progress, and happiness." (Farha Ghannam, Swarthmore College)"

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