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Mapping Gender and Women’s Studies in the Arab Gulf: How to Move It from the Margins?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2023

Huda Alsahi
Huda Alsahi*
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Email: huda.alsahi@sns.it
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Over the past few decades, the Arab Gulf has witnessed tremendous socioeconomic and structural transformation coupled with major reforms to modernize the higher education sector. These reforms have focused on establishing partnerships with foreign universities and/or hosting international branch campuses to promote diverse, liberal, and high-quality educational programs. While these far-reaching reforms have undeniably led to a dramatic increase in the number of academic institutions (Baghdady 2017), these institutions have mostly reproduced traditional educational structures and paradigms, with little contribution to the advancement of more liberal and progressive ideas and/or areas of study, namely, gender and women’s studies (GWS).

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Critical Perspectives Article
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Politics & Gender , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 2023 , pp. 296 - 301
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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