Religion and female empowerment: evidence from Pakistan and northern Nigeria
Development theory and practice identify religious conviction as a challenge to female empowerment. Drawing on a new dataset on girls from madrasas and secular schools in Pakistan and northern Nigeria, and on ethnographic fieldwork, this article problematises this assumption. The data show various l...
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Routledge
2018
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