Manligt och kvinnligt i Alla tiders historia A : En diskursanalytisk studie av kapitel i läroboken Alla tiders historia A

The purpose of this essay is to investigate how the writers of two history textbooks describe females and males, and how they are presented in different discourses. The theories, which constitutes the foundation of the essay is that of gender studies, queer-theory and gender-socialization. The main methods of the essay are discourse analysis and text analysis. The main questions are: - What type of discourses are found in the text books and how would they be described? - How are women and men depicted in the found discourses? - How are the discourses holding up with school values? The results of the essay concluded that there are three different discourses present in the two text-books. These discourses are as follows: ”women as oppressed”, ”women mentioned in relation to the male sex” and ”males as the oppressors”. These discourses are analyzed with the mentioned theories above