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ERIC Number: EJ710267
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 5
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0037-7724
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Women of the World, Re-Write! Women in American World History High School Textbooks from the 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s
Clark, Roger; Ayton, Kieran; Frechette, Nicole; Keller, Pamela J.
Social Education, v69 n1 p41 Jan-Feb 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 of popular world history textbooks from the 1960s, the 1980s, and the 1990s indicates that women received less attention than men in all three decades, but that the difference declined on all six of the indicators between the 1960s and the 1980s and that it declined again on four of the indicators between the 1980s and the 1990s. This pattern is slightly different from what was found in the article about American history books over the same three decades; they found that the differences between women and men's visibility declined on all six indicators between each pair of decades. A list of the textbooks examined is provided. (Contains 13 notes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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