Gendered Paradoxes: Educating Jordanian Women in Nation,

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

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. The resulting demographic picture thereâ€”highly educated women who still largely stay at home as mothers and caregiversâ€” prompted the World Bank to label Jordan a â€œgender paradox.â€ In Gendered Paradoxes, Fida J. Adely shows that assessment to be a fallacy, taking readers into the rarely seen halls of a Jordanian public schoolâ€”the al-Khatwa High School for Girlsâ€”and revealing the dynamic lives of its students, for whom such trends are far from paradoxical.

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Through the lives of these students, Adely explores the critical issues young people in Jordan grapple with today: nationalism and national identity, faith and the requisites of pious living, appropriate and respectable gender roles, and progress. In the process she shows the important place of education in Jordan, one less tied to the economic ends of labor and employment that are so emphasized by the rest of the developed world. In showcasing alternative values and the highly capable young women who hold them, Adely raises fundamental questions about what constitutes development, progress, and empowermentâ€”not just for Jordanians, but for the whole world.

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Country USA
Manufacturer University of Chicago Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-08-28
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of Chicago Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2012-08-28
Format	Kindle eBook

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

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