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- Questions the relationship between gender, education and equality through the lens of the capability approach
- Sheds light on issues of justice and equality with regards to female teachers as societal actors and agents of change
- Focuses on the lived experiences of female teachers across several generations to highlight gender inequality
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education (GED)
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“Firdevs Melis Cin provides an original and innovative account of what three generations of Turkish women teachers have reason to value for their well-being and agency as teachers and in their lives. Drawing on rich and fascinating life history empirical data from the women’s experiences in their families and neighbourhoods, in school as students and then as teachers, and in their personal lives we are given a vivid account of the continuities and changes in women’s lives. We see the persistence of gender inequality even as new spaces of freedom have opened up for women, and we see a closing of political space and commitments compared to the energy of republican times and struggles against authoritarian rule in the later period. Through all this Firdevs Melis Cin skillfully weaves the voices of her participants in context and in history for a compelling and pathbreaking account of women’s actual lives and lived gender injustices in Turkey.”(Melanie Walker, Distinguished University Professor, University of the Free State, South Africa)
“Firdevs Melis Cin has undertaken a thorough and scholarly analysis of what constitutes being a woman and a teacher in Turkey. It is a timely and welcome addition to the literature, creative in the theoretical framework, and ambitious in its aims because it reaches three generations through a historical sequence. The book offers a series of detailed, insightful critical explorations of the key themes of feminism, education and society and constitutes a remarkable contribution to the debate.” (Dr. Aurora Lopez-Fogues, Assistant Professor and Researcher, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
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Book Title: Gender Justice, Education and Equality
Book Subtitle: Creating Capabilities for Girls' and Women's Development
Authors: Firdevs Melis Cin
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39104-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39103-8Published: 06 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81818-4Published: 12 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39104-5Published: 23 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2524-6445
Series E-ISSN: 2524-6453
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 212
Topics: Gender and Education, Gender Studies, Teaching and Teacher Education, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights