Review of methodological precedents Sample Clauses

Review of methodological precedents. The numerous studies with the focus of analysing gender in textbooks use a variety of methods of discourse analysis. These methods include content analysis and corpus analysis. These methods are used to describe how textbooks in a certain context represent gender, while they do not necessarily encounter the effect of culture. In other words, they aim to answer how gender is represented, but they do not answer the question why the representation is this way. Therefore, Xxxxxxxxxx’x (2015) model for critical discourse analysis (CDA) is chosen, because it aims to explore the effect of culture. This method is closely related to feminist critical discourse analysis (FCDA). According to Xxxxx (2005), the role of both methods is to study how power is produced or resisted in text as a way to study social practices. However, the difference between these methods is that FCDA moves from the assumption that women receive less rights, while CDA aims to explore the assumptions held in a particular context. In other words, the goal of CDA is to examine both text and social practices in order to infer whether social injustice is promoted or challenged, while FCDA moves from the assumption that this social injustice exists. Although a substantial number of previous studies indicate inequity in gender representation, this assumption cannot be held in the particular context of the study because there are no previous studies done on it.