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Peer reviewedClark, Roger; Ayton, Kieran; Frechette, Nicole; Keller, Pamela J. – Social Education, 2005
This article is the world history counterpart to a previous paper on American history textbooks, "How Much of the Sky? Women in American History High School Textbooks from the 1960s, 1980s and 1990s," Social Education, January/February 2004. The authors of this article examined six books from each decade, the 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s. The analysis…
Descriptors: Females, Textbook Content, Textbook Bias, Gender Bias
How Much of the Sky? Women in American High School History Textbooks from the 1960s, 1980s and 1990s
Peer reviewedClark, Roger; Allard, Jeffrey; Mahoney, Timothy – Social Education, 2004
How many names of women from American history can the average, recent high school graduate come up with? How does this number compare with the number of males she or he can name? These are the kinds of questions that informed Janice Trecker's classic study of U.S. high school textbooks. They were also the basis for the research in Sadker and…
Descriptors: Females, Textbook Content, Content Analysis, Textbook Bias
