Abstract
Autore:
Ghaffari Rassa
Titolo:
"L’accesso femminile all’istruzione superiore in Iran. Cambiamenti strutturali e ruolo della path dependency"
The purpose of the article
is to analyze the development of female’s
demand for and access to higher education
in Iran from the royal period (1925-1979)
until the last election in 2013. In particular,
it focuses on the effects of the Islamic Revolution
(1979) and the consequent islamization
of the society and universities on
Iranian women’s educational demand. The
aim is to show how this process has affected
Iranian young women in an ambiguous
and paradoxical way: on the one hand, the
resurgence of conservatory and fundamentalist
fringes and the reform of the higher
education system have been aimed at reinforcing
the traditional women’s role in an
Islamic perspective; on the other, using a
sociological framework based on the paradigm
shift and path dependency theories,
it is shown how Iranian women have been
able to take advantages of the new situation
overturning the university structure and the
Islamic turn of its mission.
