A representação das mulheres no livro didático: uma análise de gênero

Abstract

This final paper exposes the questioning about the adherence of the history of women and gender to the teaching of history, through bibliographic research and analysis (using the discourse analysis method) of a collection of textbooks of History, currently used in public high schools in the city of Delmiro Gouveia-AL. First the work makes a brief summary of the changes in historiography until it reaches a new history, where previously excluded characters are now studied, such as women, bringing forth a gender history, where the relationship between men and women is analyzed. In the second moment, the need to incorporate academic scientific advances and the new social paradigms in schools is presented, questioning whether women's history and gender relations have reached the classrooms, focusing on the textbook, still the most widely used instrument by teachers, and raising the need for a conscious, critical teaching that includes diversity. Lastly, the analysis of the collection of textbooks using a gender perspective, taking into account texts and images and investigating the inclusion of women in the content: how often they appear; how they are portrayed; who these women are, making an ethnic cut and also pointing out the absences, facts and feminine characters that have not been reported. This is a work carried out by a woman who believes in the importance of the deconstruction of gender to overcome inequality between men and women and in education as the most effective instrument for this.