Examining the complex linkages between gender and education in the Indian context forms part of a wider matrix of inquiry related to understanding gender and its intersections with class, caste, religion and region. The sixteen essays in this Reader by eminent scholars offer critical feminist perspectives covering many issues related to these linkages, examining ideologies, structural contexts, knowledge, pedagogy and experiences through a socio-historcal lens. They point to the range of sources and methods that can be used to uncover the linkages between gender and education such as quantitative data, literature, autobiographies, oral histories and ethnography.
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Introduction
1. Masculinity and Femininity: Ideas are Real
2. Growing Up
Male
3. Through the Looking Glass: Gender Socialisation in a Primary School
4. Bound by Norms and Out of Bounds: Experiences of PAGFB (Persons Assigned
Gender Female at Birth) Within the Formal Education System
5. Men, Women and
the Embattled Family
6. Strishiksha, or Education for Women
7. Role Models:
Educated Muslim WomenReal and Ideal
8. Partition and Family Strategies:
Gender-Education Linkages Among Punjabi Women in Delhi
9. Unequal Schooling
as a Factor in the Reproduction of Social Inequality in India
10. From Access
to Attainment: Girls Schooling in Contemporary India
11. Negotiation and
Compromise: Gender and Government Elementary Education
12. The Contested
Terrain of Reproduction: Class and Gender in Schooling in India
13. Serving
the Nation: Gender and Family Values in Military School
14. Chhadi Lage Chham
Chham, Vidya Yeyi Gham Gham (The Harder the Stick Beats, the Faster the Flow
of Knowledge): Dalit Womens Struggle for Education
15. Gender and Curriculum
16. Education as Trutiya Ratna: Towards Phule-Ambedkarite Feminist
Pedagogical Practice
Nandini Manjrekar is Professor, School of Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She was a member of the NCERT National Focus Group on Gender Issues in Education (2005), has been part of several MHRD committees on education, and a panel to prepare a vision document on education in Jammu and Kashmir. She has taught at the M.S. University of Baroda and Department of Womens Studies, MIT, Cambridge.
