“The Courage to Express Myself”: Muslim women's narrative of self-empowerment and personal development through university studies

Anat Gilat

International Journal of Educational Development, 2015, vol. 45, issue C, 54-64

Abstract: The purpose of this research is to understand the process of self-empowerment that religious and non-religious Muslim women living in Israel experienced during their university studies. The principal results indicate a narrative of self-empowerment which develops through three stages: (a) awareness of gender regulation; (b) moral resistance; and (c) self-empowerment through university studies. Major study findings reveal that women do indeed undergo a deeply personal process of self-empowerment, which then encourages a growing awareness to their own inner strengths and ability to draw on such power in other aspects of life.

Keywords: Gender regulation; Resistance; Self-empowerment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2015.09.016

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