Participant Info

First Name
Shenila
Last Name
Khoja-Moolji
Affiliation
Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Bowdoin College
Website URL
https://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/skhoja/
Keywords
girlhood, Muslims, masculinities, Pakistan, state power, feminist theory, postcolonial theory
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About Me

Shenila Khoja-Moolji is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College. Her work examines the interplay of gender, race, religion, and power in transnational contexts, particularly in relation to Muslim populations. Dr. Khoja-Moolji is the author of Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia (University of California Press). The book combines historical and cultural studies analyses with ethnographic work to examine the figure of the ‘educated girl’ in colonial India and postcolonial Pakistan.

Recent Publications

Book: Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia (University of California Press).

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Pakistan and US
Expertise by Geography
Asia, United States
Expertise by Chronology
Modern, 20th century, 21st century
Expertise by Topic
Children & Youth, Colonialism, Gender, Race, Sexual Violence, Women