Fifty Years of Traditional Gender Roles on Mexican Textbooks for Elementary School

Mayra Margarito Gaspar; Silvia Quezada Camberos

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Fifty Years of Traditional Gender Roles on Mexican Textbooks for Elementary School

Mayra Margarito Gaspar, Silvia Quezada Camberos

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Received: 13 November 2018 Accepted: 29 November 2018 Published: 21 January 2019

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Abstract

This research observes the construction of gender roles throughout the action of basic education school, taking as a guiding axis how textbooks depict the feminine and masculine figures. The Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos (CONALITEG - National Commission of Free Textbooks) distributes the official textbooks for basic education to all public or private Mexican schools. This government agency is also responsible for designing and editing books and printed materials to complement the programs and educational reforms to be implemented. The volumes intended for primary school students constitute the object of this research, since they have become the main teaching tool. The corpus consists of editions from 1960 to 2009; these books correspond to three educational reforms. The use of texts of different periods allowed to establish a comparison between the men’s and women’s functions in fifty years. The theoretical-methodological approach of this paper is based on the Barthes’ iconographic proposal. This author explains the social nature of speech figures, analyzing the denoted and connoted messages of visual texts. Following this perspective, images of different decades were reviewed to observe the dialogue they establish and through which two gender figures are constructed: the female motherhood and the male productiveness.

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DOI	10.11648/j.ash.20190501.11
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Gender Roles, Textbooks, Image, Identity, Discourse

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Mayra Margarito Gaspar

Department of Letters, Guadalajara University, Guadalajara, México
Silvia Quezada Camberos

Department of Letters, Guadalajara University, Guadalajara, México

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