Introduction Abolaji S. Mustapha and Sara Mills Part I: Theories of Representation in Relation to Textbooks 1. Gender Representation in Learning Materials Abolaji S. Mustapha and Sara Mills 2. Gender (Representation) in Foreign Language Textbooks: Avoiding Pitfalls and Moving On Jane Sunderland Part II: Textual Analysis 3. Gender Representation in Hong Kong Primary English-Language Textbooks: A Corpus Study Jackie Lee and Peter Collins 4. Innocent Maths? Gender Representations in German Maths Books Christine Ott 5. Gender Representations in EFL Textbooks in Turkey Ebru Bag and Yasemin Bayyurt 6. Gender Stereotyping and Linguistic Sexism in Qatari Teaching Materials Zohreh Eslami, Sunni Sonnenburg, Wei-Hong Ko, Fatma Hasan, and Fuhui Tong Part III: Beyond the Text 7. Textual Representations and Transformation in Teacher Masculinity Rosyln Appleby 8. Finnish Teachers Exploring Gender Bias in School Textbooks Liisa Tainio and Ulla Karvonen 9. Gender Positioning through Visual Images in English Language Textbooks in Nigeria Abolaji S. Mustapha 10. Gender Socialization through Literary Texts: A Study of Two Folk Tales Used in a Russian Preschool Ekaterina Moore 11. Constructing Gender and Sexuality in the EFL Classroom in Poland: Textbook Construction and Classroom Negotiation? Łukasz Pakuła and Joanna Pawelczyk
Sara Mills is Research Professor in Linguistics at Sheffield Hallam
University. She has published in the areas of feminist linguistics
and politeness research, for example on language and sexism, gender
and politeness. Her books include Gender and Politeness (2003) and
Language, Gender and Feminism (with Mullany) (2011).
Abolaji S. Mustapha is Senior Lecturer at Lagos State University,
Nigeria. He has published in the areas of gender, language policy,
politeness, and multilingualism. His publications include Gender in
Language Use (2010) Compliment response patterns in Nigerian
English (2010) and The hegemony of the English language in Nigeria
(2014).
‘This collection of various representations of gender found in English Language Learning textbooks is a rich one with a new theoretical visions to the field as well as fresh explorations of textbooks from around the world. Mills and Mustapha have assembled an incredible variety of original explorations of how gender still matters and still reveals problematic societal assumptions.’ —Allyson Jule, Trinity Western University, Canada
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