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Reproducing Gender Inequality: A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Turkish Adult Literacy Textbook

Authors

• • Ramazan Gungor
  • Pennsylvania State University
• • Esther Prins
  • Pennysylvania State University

Abstract

Based on Critical Discourse Analysis of a prominent adult literacy textbook in Turkey, this paper discusses the text’s two main Discourses: (a) a normative parenting Discourse that assigns mothers responsibility for childrearing and caretaking, and fathers responsibility for discipline; and (b) a Discourse of the sexual division of labor that associates the outside, public world with men, and the private, domestic world with women.

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How to Cite: Gungor, R. & Prins, E. (2010) “Reproducing Gender Inequality: A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Turkish Adult Literacy Textbook”, Adult Education Research Conference. 1(2010).