Abstract

In this study I examine how women are represented in English-language books for intermediate and secondary Saudi students attending public schools. I focus on how such textbooks depicted women in relation to men by qualitatively analyzing the visual discourse. The overall conclusion suggests that the textbooks demonstrate gender bias. Women are underrepresented in the textbooks as demonstrated by reducing their social perception and spreading ideology that confines them within society’s religious and cultural norms. Even though in this analysis I review only six books on a single subject, I demonstrate that the way women are currently portrayed contradicts government efforts to elevate their status and highlights the need to amend the curricula with less biased views.

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