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One of the big questions before me is how useful is it to use poststructuralism, a primarily Western (and to some a canonical) theoretical lens to examine and understand gendered subject and subjectivity constitution in a specifically non-Western society like Pakistan. A second issue before me is how problematic is my position as a male in trying to understand gendered subjects in relation to Pakistan’s educational discourse.
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Naseem, M.A. (2010). Michel Foucault and I: Applying Poststructuralism to the Constitution of Gendered Subjects in Pakistan’s Educational Discourse. In: Education and Gendered Citizenship in Pakistan. Palgrave Macmillan’s, Postcolonial Studies in Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117914_2
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