Of Ambivalent Identities: A Reflexive Exploration of Identity Construction of Adolescent Girls as Mu...

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" Of Ambivalent Identities: A Reflexive Exploration of Identity Construction of Adolescent Girls as Muslim Women Inside Bangladeshi Madrasahs "
Hossain, Syeda Shagufe Jordan, Steve

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1055986
Doc. No	:	TL55103
Main Entry	:	Hossain, Syeda Shagufe
Title & Author	:	Of Ambivalent Identities: A Reflexive Exploration of Identity Construction of Adolescent Girls as Muslim Women Inside Bangladeshi Madrasahs\ Hossain, Syeda ShagufeJordan, Steve
College	:	McGill University (Canada)
Date	:	2019
Degree	:	M.A.
student score	:	2019
Note	:	99 p.
Abstract	:	The following paper explores how adolescent girls in Bangladeshi madrasahs conceptualize their identities as Muslim women in lieu of the author's own experiences. The conceptual framework has been constructed using three broad themes beginning with the social constructionist perspective followed by exploring the Multiple Dimensions of Identity Theory to explore the link between multiple dimensions of identity and meaning making i.e. the ability to perceive relationships between and among their multiple identities and noticing the tensions and conflicts, awareness of their inability to reconcile multiple identities. The third theme will draw upon Judith Butler's interpretation of subjectification i.e. the processes through which we are subjected, and actively take up as our own the terms of our subjection. In addition to the three themes, the research will heavily rely on Himani Bannerji (1995) for her thoughts of production of the Other in her essay "But who speaks for us? Experience and Agency in Conventional Feminist Paradigms." The concept of the social production of the other through employing two research methods i.e. writing storied poems about the author's own experiences of working closely with adolescents in a Bangladeshi madrasah boarding school and analyzing the artwork produced by two female students in response to the question, "How do you see yourself as a woman?" The research indicates that there is no one conceptualization of identities. Identities in Bangladesh are ambivalent and there is a necessity to depend our understanding of this ambivalence as academics and researchers. This ambivalence, though uncomfortable, must be engaged with in order to understand how individuals become and take up their own terms of subjection.
Descriptor	:	Psychology
	:	South Asian studies
	:	Womens studies
Added Entry	:	Jordan, Steve
Added Entry	:	McGill University (Canada)