This thesis is an analysis of the representation of gender and sexual orientation in a series of Swedish high school-level educational textbooks for teaching French. The content analytical method used for the analysis was a model developed by the French researchers Carole Brugeilles and Sylvie Cromer, which focuses on the concept of “figure”. A total of 252 figures were identified in the corpus (a textbook series called “Génial” composed of four individual books). A large majority of these figures did not portray a normative gender role, nor did they present an explicit heterosexual orientation. However, a link was found between these two aspects of analysis. That is, explicit heterosexual orientation seemed to “activate” normative gender role representation. Moreover, of the 252 figures, not one single figure was found representing a non-heterosexual person. The didactic consequences of this kind of heteronormative educational textbooks and its relation to gender norms are discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-191951 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Bergström, Jan |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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