of building cultural centers in all communities and with any kind of attitude has always been one of the designers’ issues. when we use the term in ordinary daily conversation, we often think of culture as an equivalent to the “higher things of the mind”- art, literature, music and painting. according to sociologists, the concept of culture includes such activities, but also far more. culture c...

iran is a developing country in which the women despite the growth of rate of education in two recent decades have suffered a vast gender gap in education, during the past one hundred years. the aim of this paper was to present a portrait of educational position of women in iran, during the past one hundred years and to analyze the obstacles of females in to achieve to equal educational opportu...

Postcolonial feminism is an exploration into the interactions of colonialism with gender, nation, class, race, and sexualities in different contexts of women’s lives. Postcolonial feminism or the ‘Third World feminism’ originated as a critique of mainstreams in the Western feminist theorists, investigating the portrayal of women in the literature and society of the colonized countries as margin...

this study takes a critical discourse analysis approach to investigate the linguistic representation of male and female social actors and construction of gender identities in the interchange third edition. the analytical models used are van leeuwen's (1996) framework and halliday's transitivity model (halliday & matthiessen, 2004). the findings of this study indicated a differential represe...

Objectives. The State of Kerala in southwestern India shows the highest gender development index in the country. Despite having the highest literacy rate and educational achievements of women, the suicide rate among females is very high, and domestic violence committed against women is increasing every year in Kerala. This article attempts to analyze the demographic, social, and cultural change...