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This book challenges the uncritical use of the long held dictum of the development discourse that education empowers women. Situated in the post-structuralist feminist position it argues that in its current state the educational discourse in Pakistan actually disempowers women.

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Conceptual Framework Education System and the Educational Policy Discourse in Pakistan Women and the State in Pakistan: A History of the Present Educational Discourse and the Constitution of Gendered Subjectivities in Pakistan

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AYAZ NASEEM Assistant Professor of Education, Concordia University, Canada.

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