Going 'Bahar' (Outside) for Higher Education: Gendered Symbolic Boundaries of Higher Education Access and Choice in Haryana, India
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| Title: | Going 'Bahar' (Outside) for Higher Education: Gendered Symbolic Boundaries of Higher Education Access and Choice in Haryana, India |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Emily F. Henderson (ORCID |
| Source: | Gender and Education. 2025 37(2):156-173. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 18 |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Females, Place of Residence, Access to Education, Gender Issues, Undergraduate Students, College Choice, Educational Attitudes, Social Influences, Family Influence, Commuting Students, On Campus Students |
| Geographic Terms: | India |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09540253.2024.2430188 |
| ISSN: | 0954-0253 1360-0516 |
| Abstract: | While the gendered nature of spatial decision-making about higher education (HE) access is somewhat neglected in the international literature, these discussions are prevalent in India, where commuting to a higher education institution or staying in student accommodation may be considered risky for young women's honour. This paper focuses specifically on the notion of going "bahar" ('outside' in Hindi) for HE. A particular feature of "bahar" is that it demarcates a boundary. The paper focuses on a corpus of references to "bahar" from the qualitative data gathered via interviews, focus group discussions and surveys for an empirical study of gender and access to HE in Haryana, India, and deploys [Butler, J. 1997. "Excitable speech: A politics of the performative." Routledge] to theorize "bahar" as a performative construct which both describes and enacts constraint. The paper maps the spatial and symbolic dimensions of the "bahar" construct, and then explores the discursive construction of women's HE access/choice, revealing the use of "bahar" as the demarcation of acceptable HE access for women. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2025 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1488179 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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| Abstract: | While the gendered nature of spatial decision-making about higher education (HE) access is somewhat neglected in the international literature, these discussions are prevalent in India, where commuting to a higher education institution or staying in student accommodation may be considered risky for young women's honour. This paper focuses specifically on the notion of going "bahar" ('outside' in Hindi) for HE. A particular feature of "bahar" is that it demarcates a boundary. The paper focuses on a corpus of references to "bahar" from the qualitative data gathered via interviews, focus group discussions and surveys for an empirical study of gender and access to HE in Haryana, India, and deploys [Butler, J. 1997. "Excitable speech: A politics of the performative." Routledge] to theorize "bahar" as a performative construct which both describes and enacts constraint. The paper maps the spatial and symbolic dimensions of the "bahar" construct, and then explores the discursive construction of women's HE access/choice, revealing the use of "bahar" as the demarcation of acceptable HE access for women. |
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| ISSN: | 0954-0253 1360-0516 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09540253.2024.2430188 |
