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Gendered Paradoxes

Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress

By: Fida Adely

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Paperback | 28 August 2012 | Edition Number 1

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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. 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 âgender 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. 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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"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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Gender Studies: Women and Girls Miscellaneous Items

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction A Day in the Life of Nada	p. 1
Ambiguous Times and Spaces	p. 11
Jordan and the al-Khatwa Secondary School for Girls: People, Place, and Time	p. 31
Performing Patriotism: Rituals and Moral Authority in a Jordanian High School	p. 57
Who Is a Good Muslim? Making Proper Faith in a Girls' High School	p. 83
Making Girls into Respectable Women	p. 111
Education for What? Women, Work, and Development in Jordan	p. 137
Conclusion	p. 161
Notes	p. 177
References	p. 201
Index	p. 217
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