This study examines women’s portrayal in four different textbooks in both text and image. Two books from the 1970s and two from the 2010s. These books will be examined with the help of a qualitative comparative content analysis method with quantitative elements. The study’s result will answer the following questions by examining the four aforementioned textbooks:1. How is the woman portrayed in the textbooks (book in imagery and text)?2. Are there any common patterns between the textbooks’ portrayal of the woman?3. Does the textbook’s year of publication affect the portrayal of the woman?The results show that the woman’s overall portrayal within the imagery and text has increased but it’s still not entirely unproblematic. Women are generally portrayed in relation to men in both imagery and text, which contributes to the portrayal of women as subordinate and legitimizes men as the norm. Named women are mentioned in passing, while the men get deeper introductions and more text dedicated to them. The woman usually gets a section dedicated to her within the chapter which serves to segregate the woman from the rest of the text and reinforces the notion that she is different from the man.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-196874 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Zetterlund, Anton |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier |
| 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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