Discrimination and exclusion of women in Chilean and Cuban school history textbooks
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- Universidad del Bío Bío
Abstract
We present the results of a qualitative study about women in textbooks of Chilean and Cuban History in a comparative analysis. The research question focused on establishing the representation of women in history textbooks. The goal was to characterize the presence of women in school discourses of official texts. The hypothesis argues that women have been invisible. The hermeneutic research was used to interpret and understand the discourses of the subject. It worked with a corpus of 15 History textbooks (10 Chilean and 5 Cuban) edited between 1996 and 2009 by different publisher companies. From the analysis of the data categories have been established based on Van Leuween (1996) such as: social actor; social role; representation; naming. Among the results, gender is not evident in Chilean and Cuban school history textbooks. This representation conveys a detected exclusion and discrimination of women in the official history of the two countries.
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