The Girls’ Institutes and Women’s Education in Turkey
Journal: Region - Educational Research and Reviews DOI: 10.32629/rerr.v6i6.2219
Abstract
The Girls’ Institutes, a single-sex educational school system established in 1927, played an important role in the modernization program in the early period of Turkish Republic. With a well-designed curriculum intensified to train ideal housewives and mothers who adopted a modern and westernized lifestyle, the Girls’ Institutes although to some extent contributed to women’s education, still became an integral part of Turkish state feminism with the gendered nationalism and reinforced inequality and disequilibrium in educational opportunities.
Keywords
education, The Girls’ Institutes, Turkey
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