Women's Studies
Hamed Shiri; Yaghoub Ahmadi; Bahar Shariati; Leila Khodavirdi
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Despite extensive social, economic, and cultural changes in recent decades, domestic work remains the primary responsibility and cultural norm for many women, including those who are employed. The personal and professional quality of life, satisfaction, and mental and social well-being of working women ...
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Despite extensive social, economic, and cultural changes in recent decades, domestic work remains the primary responsibility and cultural norm for many women, including those who are employed. The personal and professional quality of life, satisfaction, and mental and social well-being of working women are significantly influenced by their social and familial obligations. The present study employs a phenomenological approach to investigate the lived experiences and narratives of employed women in relation to domestic work, their navigation of role duality, and its repercussions within this framework. The theoretical context is based on feminist interpretations of gender inequality, role conflict, and social roles. This research employs a qualitative interpretive phenomenological approach, utilizing in-depth interviews with 15 employed women from the public and private sectors in the city of Marivan (Iran). The women were selected through purposive and theoretical sampling. The results indicate that, for employed women, “domestic work as an inescapable responsibility” is a dual social identity. As a result, this paradoxical situation subjects them to “the responsibilities of dual labor and role strain.” The findings also emphasize that domestic work is imposed on women as a feminine obligation under the reign of “patriarchal traditions,” whereas employment is perceived as a deliberate and autonomous “tool for resistance.” Improving the conditions of women necessitates the realization of gender equality through gradual steps toward structural reform and the cultivation of a collaborative and egalitarian culture.
Political sciences
Alieh Abbasi; Mahmoudreza Rahbarqazi; Amir Masoud Shahramnia
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This article employs a feminist perspective to investigate the process of identity formation among women in the city of Yasuj. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 27 women from this city to collect and analyze data using the Strauss and Corbin grounded theory method. The causal conditions ...
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This article employs a feminist perspective to investigate the process of identity formation among women in the city of Yasuj. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 27 women from this city to collect and analyze data using the Strauss and Corbin grounded theory method. The causal conditions section's findings suggest that gendered othering, restriction of choices, hegemonic patriarchy, religious authority discourse, and the social reproduction of gender influence women's identities. Moreover, the discursive normative system, religious symbolic order, gendered embodiment, hegemonic dress code, and gendered family system are identified as contextual conditions that significantly contribute to the stabilization of the traditional identity of women. However, institutional gender discrimination, normative deterrence, intra-family power relations, the representation of body control, and patriarchal capitalism are abstracted as codes of intervening conditions. The study examines the influence of power discourses on women's identity and describes the role of resistance and acquiescence in the formation of women's identities in the strategies section. Positive outcomes (identity and embodiment reconstruction, resistance against dominant discourses, autonomy, and body control), mixed outcomes (resistance and acceptance discourse, role duality, subject and social order conflict), and negative outcomes (power discourse and social surveillance, loss of autonomy, internalization of norms) are the three categories into which the consequences of this phenomenon are classified.
Sociology
Omid Ghaderzadeh; Freshte Khairandish
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One of the conceptual and theoretical constructs that facilitate comprehension of patriarchy and women's inferiority is gender socialization. The current research aims to address the sources and dimensions of gender socialization through the perspectives of women. The present research was conducted using ...
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One of the conceptual and theoretical constructs that facilitate comprehension of patriarchy and women's inferiority is gender socialization. The current research aims to address the sources and dimensions of gender socialization through the perspectives of women. The present research was conducted using thematic analysis and qualitative methodology. “Gender roles” is one of the dimensions of gender socialization. Our analysis of women’s narratives revealed four primary themes: “identification with home,” “instrumental roles,” “The patriarchal care system,” and “glass ceiling.” The self-concept and personality of women are influenced by gender stereotypes, which are evident in public spaces, family administration, girls’ marriages, and marital relationships, as evidenced by the narration of women. The gender stereotypes related to women’s personality have been influenced by the “genderization of public space” and “insecurity of public space” gender stereotypes related to public spaces, as well as the “expressive identity,” and “genderization of education and employment” gender stereotypes based on women’s narrative. The gender stereotypes in the field of family management are “risklessness and dependent decision-making” and “gender separation of planning and management in the family.” The gender stereotypes related to the selection of a spouse and sexual relations are “urgency and strictness in the marriage of girls” and “women as sexual objects” and “as honor.” The primary sources of gender socialization are “family” and “mass communication media.”
Siroos Ahmadi; Kheyri Hamidpoor; hamid sedaghat; Fatemeh karami
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Violence against women is any form of gender-based violence behavior that causes physical, sexual, psychological harm and pain to women. Such behavior can be done openly or covertly by threatening, coercing, and outright deprivation of liberty. Violence against women is a phenomenon in which women are ...
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Violence against women is any form of gender-based violence behavior that causes physical, sexual, psychological harm and pain to women. Such behavior can be done openly or covertly by threatening, coercing, and outright deprivation of liberty. Violence against women is a phenomenon in which women are abused by the opposite sex because of their gender and simply because they are women. In this regard, the present study seeks to investigate the violence against women among women in Bushehr in frame of the qualitative method using the grounded theory. Participants were 12 women who were interviewed in a semi-structured manner and then the data were analyzed using three-step coding of open, axial and selective. The findings indicate the existence of five axial categories including "patriarchal culture and institutionalized gender inequality", "quality of couples' interactions", "legitimization of the cultural system to violence", "women's strategy against violence" and "reproduction of patriarchal attitudes towards to women ". The core variable of the research is "the rule of patriarchal ideology and the hegemony of male domination"; Violence perpetrated by men against women in any situation is affected by the strong position of men in interpersonal and social relationships. Masculinity as a strong factor impacts on violence against women and violence is influenced by the patriarchal system.
zahra khavari; Alireza Mohseni Tabrizi; Seid Mohamad Seid Mirzaee
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Alienation is the product of the modern world, which began to expand as a result of changes in the division of labor, the process of production and the expropriation in the world, which resulted in the fragmentation of the individual's relationship with himself and surrounding world, also destroying ...
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Alienation is the product of the modern world, which began to expand as a result of changes in the division of labor, the process of production and the expropriation in the world, which resulted in the fragmentation of the individual's relationship with himself and surrounding world, also destroying the human essence. Accordingly, the women affected by this issue, as a result of inequality and gender discrimination policies, deprivation due to the expropriation, instrumental look and commodification in the media have been strongly affected. The purpose of this research is to explore and interpret the women's experience of "self-alienation and strategies to get rid of It" using the grounded theory method. Purposive sampling was used for data collection and finally, 20 women have been selected for in depth interviews in Mashhad. Data were analyzed through the three coding process. The results of the study show that: obedience of domination, Theatrical character and other causal categories that have been interpreted in the text, have exacerbated the self -alienation for women. These conditions along with the weakening the power of will and authority, have reduced their opportunity to experience, self-knowledge and talents. Therefore, to get rid of this enclosed world, women have offered various strategies, the most important of which is improving the level of awareness and knowledge of women about themselves and the world around them so that they can continue to renew their essence and build their social world with freedom and awareness.
Sima Raeisi; Hossein Tafazzoli; Mohammad Tohidfam; Ahmadreza Taheri
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Achieving political development requires the political participation of social groups in society, particularly women's political participation. In any society the fulfillment of proper participation of women in policy making is hindered by specific obstacles. Accordingly, in the present study, attempts ...
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Achieving political development requires the political participation of social groups in society, particularly women's political participation. In any society the fulfillment of proper participation of women in policy making is hindered by specific obstacles. Accordingly, in the present study, attempts have been made to examine the barriers of political participation of women in the Baluchistan region by means of institutionalization and qualitative techniques; qualitative interviews with elitses in Baluchestan provided themes for researchers to specify condition of political participation of women among the Baluch. Findings in the present study state that barriers of political participation of women can be considered from two aspects. First, the way official institution looks at women, second, the culture of Baluchestan people. The results suggest that the main obstacles are informal or intangible institutions, such as fathers or patriarchal culture, and some religious beliefs, which, on the one hand, are the causes of women's poor selflsteem in political activities. On the other hand, legal and formal institutions appear to reflect the less formal institutions that have undergone some kind of institutional process. Nevertheless, participatory institutions such as Islamic councils of the city and village have been able to effectively reduce the influence of informal institutions on gradual political participation of Baloch women.
Women's Studies
Hosein Bani Fatemeh; Mohammad Abbaszadeh; Mohammad Bagher Alizadeh Aghdam; Nayyer Mohammadpour
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Violence against women is a major obstacle to the development of all societies. The violence can be seen in all forms of physical, economic, legal, social and cultural life both in the public and in private spheres. Considering the importance of the subject, this study has been conducted among 20 - 60 ...
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Violence against women is a major obstacle to the development of all societies. The violence can be seen in all forms of physical, economic, legal, social and cultural life both in the public and in private spheres. Considering the importance of the subject, this study has been conducted among 20 - 60 year old married women in Tabriz city. The research sample was selected using snowball method. Qualitative data were collected from 24 married women in Tabriz using semi-structured interviews about the main aspects of the research. Data analysis was carried out using the grounded theory and using an open, axial and selective coding approach. The results have indicated that men's physical violence against women reflects a number of tensions and stress. The concept of “stress” in this research indicates the men’s reaction to external and internal pressures in the public and private spheres. In other words, stress is a negative reaction of men to the situation and present situation in the society from which the violence is one of its consequences.
Volume 7, Issue 1 , May 2009
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Fable literature is one of the bases in which sexual stereotypes are reproduced. Like all other scientific fields, it continuously delineates a repetitive image of women. Therefore, this article aims to study how literary texts reflect sexual discrimination in a specific culture and how they deal with ...
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Fable literature is one of the bases in which sexual stereotypes are reproduced. Like all other scientific fields, it continuously delineates a repetitive image of women. Therefore, this article aims to study how literary texts reflect sexual discrimination in a specific culture and how they deal with reproduction of sexual division; specially how these injustices are drawn in Mr. Dolatabadi's selected works.The Results of the research shows that in Hejrate solyman, Bashobeyro,Jaye khaliye soloch, kalidar story books, harshness plays the main role and appears with various origins and in different forms (clear and hidden) and thus overcomes and defeats women. The method used in this research is content analysis.
Volume 4, Issue 14 , September 2006
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Sociological analysis of gender relations in films has always been important to sociologists due to monitoring social relations and structures. In this research, the researcher tries to investigate quality of gender relations in Iranian films after the revolution. The fundamental question of the research ...
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Sociological analysis of gender relations in films has always been important to sociologists due to monitoring social relations and structures. In this research, the researcher tries to investigate quality of gender relations in Iranian films after the revolution. The fundamental question of the research is how gender inequality is represented and constructed in interaction of men and women in Iranian films. The theoretical framework in the research is social constructionist approach of Erving Goffman based on which concepts, variables and hypothesis of research have been defined and constructed. The Method of research is content analysis, by which 62 Iranian films are analyzed. In This article, it is tried to introduce brilliant thinking of Goffman and analyze gender displays in Iranian films by using Goffman’s visual analysis model.
The findings of research approve the presence of significant gender displays in Iranian films within the framework of Goffman’s visual analysis model, while expressing the reconstruction and reproduction of gender values and norms in Iranian cinema after revolution.
Volume 2, Issue 2 , June 2003
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Globalization is an encompassing phenomenon, which has created challenges for all of humanity. The family, as a social institution, has experienced some transformations brought about by globalization. The issue under study in this paper examines the potential impact of globalization on the family and ...
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Globalization is an encompassing phenomenon, which has created challenges for all of humanity. The family, as a social institution, has experienced some transformations brought about by globalization. The issue under study in this paper examines the potential impact of globalization on the family and the challenges and the opportunities that are created by globalization for today's family. The results of this study point to fact that the family in the era of globalization will continue to survive. However, there will be changes in the family structure and in the relations between family members. The typical nuclear family will experiences transformations, and greater varieties of family types. Additionally, the power structure of patriarchy within families, women's greater awareness, their social participation, employment and education, will transform their status in the family and society. While globalization can have the potential to create opportunities for the eradication of patriarchy and increase of women's rights, it also holds many challenges in the realm of identity and structural relations of family members. As such, it is important to understand globalization in its various dimensions and its possible impact, so that its positive opportunities can be harnessed and its challenges be appropriately addressed.
