Resurfaced and Disappearing Past: National Heroes in History Textbooks of Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan

Bagdasarova, Nina; Marchenko, Larissa

doi:10.1007/978-94-024-0975-8_15

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“…From this perspective, history textbooks also socialize gender roles . The growing evidence suggests that women remain consequently outside the history textbooks' narratives or they are portrayed in stereotypical female roles, usually inside homes, which belong to the private sphere (Szymczak, 2011;Chmura-Rutkowska, Głowacka-Sobiech & Skórzyńska, 2015;Michalski & Napierała, 2016;Williams & Bennett, 2016;Bagdasarova & Marchenko, 2017;Hildebrant-Wypych, 2017;Durrani et al ., 2022) .…”

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Underrepresented and Excluded from the Public Sphere: Women of Solidarity in Polish History Textbooks

Hejwosz-Gromkowska,

Hildebrandt-Wypych

2023

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The paper aims to analyze the Solidarity movement’s textbook narratives, focusing on women’s representation in the history textbooks used in upper-secondary schools between 1991-2018. Quantitative methods were used to measure different categories of historical figures (men/women) in terms of their frequency and textual space. To explore the values and ideologies embedded in the textbook narratives of Solidarity, the study was guided by the qualitative approach and the critical discourse analysis of both verbal and visual texts. Women consequently remain outside the historical narrative of Solidarity as a marginalized group. Stereotypical images and underrepresentation of women in history textbooks provide a distorted version of social reality, acknowledging that political and social activism belongs to the public sphere occupied by men. Moreover, it reproduces the view that women do not belong to the public sphere and cannot be leaders because they are positioned in the private sphere. From the perspective of citizenship education, such a strand reproduces or/and reinforces social inequalities.

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