This book reframes gender and education issues from a feminist and capabilities perspective
through a multi-generational study of women as teachers. It explores how different
understandings of gender equality and education generate a variety of approaches with which to
pursue gender equality in education. Through employing the capabilities approach in a critical
and innovative way to question justice agency and well-being and also to evaluate valued
functionings and capabilities freedoms and lack of opportunities in women's lives in Turkey it
highlights the need for constructing a gender-just society. The book takes a closer look at
these women's memories in order to understand how gender roles were created negotiated and
contested and how the transition to modern ways of socialising and existing was shaped and
women's emancipation was guided by women teachers as social actors rather than as passive
onlookers or oppressed individuals. It provides important insights and critical evidence to be
used in the planning and implementation of education and social gender policies.
