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Abstract

Critical Discourse Analysis of BA English Text Book: A Feminist Perspective. Critical Discourse Analysis [CDA] finds out power relation and hegemony in social relations. It identifies social injustices in social relations naturalized through social and discourse practices. Moreover, CDA examines, from feminist perspective, the unequal power relations based on gender disparities and gender inequalities. The feminist CDA investigates the portrayal of female gender in discourse practices in patriarchal roles. The gender biased curriculum has impact on the personalities and cogitative abilities of the students. The gender biased curriculum portrays women either in negative roles or in gender biased roles as housewives engaged in domestic chores. This study investigates whether English text books at BA level in Pakistan portray women in traditional roles as cooking and looking after children. This study examines the construction of female identity, assigning occupational roles on bases of gender, marginalizing female gender and uplifting male gender in English text books at BA level. These aspects are the focus of the present study in order to find out the gender disparities in the textbooks selected for the present study. Power relation is also exercised through language. The present study explores the use of language in constructing identities based on gender. The study focuses the selection of words in the depiction of male and female gender in the textbooks. The analysis takes account of the depiction of patriarchal roles with the help of language for each gender.

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