Post-Socialist Gender Regimes and Controversial Ideas About Gender Equality in Hungarian Schools

Dorottya Rédai; Ráhel Katalin Turai

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-64126-9_5

Post-Socialist Gender Regimes and Controversial Ideas About Gender Equality in Hungarian Schools

Dorottya Rédai
, Ráhel Katalin Turai

Democracy Institute, Central European University
Department of Gender Studies, Central European University

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In this chapter findings about the gender regime in Hungarian schools are presented. Providing data analysis along the main thematic categories of the GECM, it is examined how the gender regime operates in the three schools that participated in the project. Within each thematic category, beyond comparisons among the schools, teachers’ and students’ mixed attitudes towards gender equality are also highlighted. The analysis reflects on how a mixture of apparently contradictory—‘liberal’ or ‘inclusive’, coupled with ‘conservative’—ideas is embedded in neoliberal discourses of parity and free choice disguising structural gender inequalities in the specific Hungarian post-socialist context, and how the schools’ gender ideology shaped by these controversial gendered notions sustains their gender regime.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Gender Equality and Stereotyping in Secondary Schools
Subtitle of host publication	Case Studies from England, Hungary and Italy
Editors	Maria Tsouroufli, Dorottya Rédai
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	125-163
Number of pages	39
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030641269
ISBN (Print)	9783030641252, 9783030641283
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64126-9_5
State	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education

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Rédai, D., & Turai, R. K. (2021). Post-Socialist Gender Regimes and Controversial Ideas About Gender Equality in Hungarian Schools. In M. Tsouroufli, & D. Rédai (Eds.), Gender Equality and Stereotyping in Secondary Schools: Case Studies from England, Hungary and Italy (pp. 125-163). (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education ). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64126-9_5

Rédai, Dorottya ; Turai, Ráhel Katalin. / Post-Socialist Gender Regimes and Controversial Ideas About Gender Equality in Hungarian Schools. Gender Equality and Stereotyping in Secondary Schools: Case Studies from England, Hungary and Italy. editor / Maria Tsouroufli ; Dorottya Rédai. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. pp. 125-163 (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education ).

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Post-Socialist Gender Regimes and Controversial Ideas About Gender Equality in Hungarian Schools. / Rédai, Dorottya; Turai, Ráhel Katalin.
Gender Equality and Stereotyping in Secondary Schools: Case Studies from England, Hungary and Italy. ed. / Maria Tsouroufli; Dorottya Rédai. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. p. 125-163 (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education ).

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Rédai D, Turai RK. Post-Socialist Gender Regimes and Controversial Ideas About Gender Equality in Hungarian Schools. In Tsouroufli M, Rédai D, editors, Gender Equality and Stereotyping in Secondary Schools: Case Studies from England, Hungary and Italy. Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. p. 125-163. (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education ). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-64126-9_5

Post-Socialist Gender Regimes and Controversial Ideas About Gender Equality in Hungarian Schools

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