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Interpretations Of Educational Experiences Of Women In Chitral, Pakistan, Rakshinda Shah
Interpretations Of Educational Experiences Of Women In Chitral, Pakistan, Rakshinda Shah
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This feminist oral history project records, interprets, and analyzes the educational experiences of seven Ismaili college women in Chitral, Pakistan. Chitral is a part of the world where educating girls and women is not a priority. Yet in the scarce literature available one can observe an increase in the literacy rates, especially amongst the Ismaili Muslims in the North of Chitral District. This thesis introduces students' accounts of their personal educational journeys. I argue that the students' accounts exemplify third space feminism. They negotiate contradictions and social invisibility in their daily lives in quiet activism that shadows but changes the …