"Doing and Undoing Gender": Female Higher Education in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Autor/in	Mehran, Golnar
Titel	"Doing and Undoing Gender": Female Higher Education in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Quelle	In: International Review of Education, 55 (2009) 5-6, S.541-559 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0020-8566
DOI	10.1007/s11159-009-9145-0
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Females; Foreign Countries; Gender Discrimination; Womens Education; Womens Studies; Islamic Culture; Disproportionate Representation; Equal Education; Empowerment; Public Policy; Politics of Education; Iran + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Weibliches Geschlecht; Ausland; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Islam; Kultur; Öffentliche Ordnung; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic, female higher education has been characterised by a paradoxical combination of discrimination and exclusion, on the one hand, and increasing equality and empowerment, on the other. This study focuses on the triangle of education, equality and empowerment, using Sara Longwe's women's empowerment framework to analyse the interplay between the three. State policies to Islamise the universities during the 1980-1983 Cultural Revolution determined the "gender appropriateness" of each specialisation and led to the exclusion of women from "masculine" fields of study during the early years of the revolution. Despite such discriminatory measures, women today represent the majority of students in all fields, except engineering. Women, however, remain underrepresented at graduate levels of education and as faculty members. An important challenge is to understand why men are not entering different specialisations and whether there is a possibility of "re-doing gender"--this time in addressing male inequality and disempowerment at undergraduate levels. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10