gender in iranian cinema

Assessment of the Nurse Image in Iranian Cinema

Introduction:Nursing is a profession that requires a positive view of society and governments for growth and excellence. Providing a distorted or populist image of the profession can have negative consequences for health care providers. This article aims to explain the image of nurses in Iranian cinema in the last three decades. Methods: This content analysis study was conducted in 1398 in Semn...

Representation of Gender Identity of Women in the Cinema of War

This research was conducted with the aim of identifying the gender identity of women in the movies of war period. Four movies of ‘Bashu little stranger’, ‘Gilaneh’ and ‘from Karkhe to the Rhine’ were selected and the kinds of women's identity were identified by using discourse analysis in these movies. In these movies, although women tried to fulfill the expectations of society in the form of t...

Iranian Cinema: The Puzzle of Westernization and Self-Orientalism

sociological analysis of personal and gender identity and every day life experience in iranian cinema during 1990

this study, sociological analysis of changes happened in modern individual identity and transformation of sexual identities in iran during the 1990s, among urban middle classes. we have used qualitative method especially semiotic in order to study and analyzes these three film. the kanaan by mani haghighi, the famous by iraj ghaderi and the none expected by mohammad hadi karimi. the findings sh...

Decomposing Gender Disparity in Total Physical Activity among Iranian Adults

OBJECTIVES While gender differences in physical activity (PA) have been reported, their origin is not well understood. The present study aimed to identify factors contributing to this disparity. METHODS This was a population-based cross-sectional study based on the 2011 surveillance of risk factors of non-communicable diseases that was conducted among Iranian adults. Multi-staged sampling was...

Gender Gap in Aptitude Test of Iranian EFL learners

The present study was carried out with the aim of finding gender gap in a recent aptitude test, the Cognitive Ability for Novelty in Acquisition of Language (CANAL-FT) as applied to foreign language test designed by Grigorenko et al. (2002).  For the purposes of this research, 126 undergraduate students (95 females and 31 males) all majoring in English at Shiraz Azad University participated in ...