This Is My Story’

Bibliographic Data

ID12975341
AuthorsRosie Walters (0000-0002-2649-7065, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume10
Issue3
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGirlhood Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1938-8209 • E-ISSN: 1938-8322
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/ghs.2017.100304
OpenAlexW2771113301
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited23

The cause of girls’ education in developing countries has received unprecedented attention from international organizations, politicians, transnational corporations, and the media in recent years. Much has been written about the ways in which these seemingly emancipatory campaigns reproduce historical discourses that portray women in former colonies as in need of rescue by the West. However, to date little has been written about the ways in which young women’s and girls’ education activists represent themselves. In this article I analyze I Am Malala, the autobiography of Pakistani girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai, written for her own age group. Using a feminist, poststructuralist approach to discourse analysis, it considers the way in which Yousafzai negotiates and challenges discourses around young women, Pakistan, and Islam. I conclude that a truly emancipatory understanding of girls’ rights would look not to the words and policies of powerful organizations but, rather, to young women themselves

Biography · Islam · Political science · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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