It is a huge social shift since the 1979 Revolution: Iran's Islamic government has managed to convince even traditional rural families that it is safe to send their daughters away from home to study.
That's a really interesting way of nesting this shift. It locates it in this Hegelian dialectic that could really pan out in the next decade in Iran...will we see a shift in policy and hijabs tossed out with these female PhD's? Makes sense though, I suppose. In the USA it took a restrictive decade like the 50's to make changes that really blew the old gender modes open. For a time, anyway.
I don't really get what happened to all the males, though. Do they feel disenfranchised, or are they just better capitalists than these female graduate students?
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That's a really interesting way of nesting this shift. It locates it in this Hegelian dialectic that could really pan out in the next decade in Iran...will we see a shift in policy and hijabs tossed out with these female PhD's? Makes sense though, I suppose. In the USA it took a restrictive decade like the 50's to make changes that really blew the old gender modes open. For a time, anyway.
I don't really get what happened to all the males, though. Do they feel disenfranchised, or are they just better capitalists than these female graduate students?
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