A Study of the Representation of Female Image in the Textbooks of English and Urdu at Secondary School Level
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: In developing countries like Pakistan, women are treating as inferior being as compared to men. They are given no more importance throughout all walks of life. No doubt books play an important role in developing images. It is observed that in Pakistani books the female images are not positively portrayed. If the present situation continues it will create negative effects on the new generation. So by keeping in view the above discussed points, the present study was designed. This article is based on a study conducted in continuation of a study carried out by Shah and Khurshid (2004). The study of Shah and Khurshid dealt with the females ’ representation in textbooks of Urdu and English at Middle level while the purpose of the present study was to analyze Urdu and English books at Secondary level including class 9th and 10th. The content analysis was used as the method for the study to reach on some conclusion. For this purpose two books of Urdu and two books of English were used. Poems were excluded from the study. For each book, each page was taken as a unit and counted only once. The percentages were calculated for statistical analysis. The study suggested that the female images have been under-represented or discriminatory represented and at some places it was observed that the females were involved in the religious activities, as a working women and women as a writer in both the textbooks.
Institution: Bahauddin Zakariya University
Language: English
Topic: Gender Studies in Language
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2376461811