Women‘s History on Display. What do Current Senior Year History Textbooks in Hungary Reveal about the History of Women?

Abstract

This study sets out to explore the image of women in the four history textbooks for high school fourth graders that were issued after the regime change in 1989. The analysis deals with the following questions: Do the textbook writers manage to achieve the task of portraying women as part of history as formulated by the National Curriculum? Can the history textbook readers develop a complex image of the past in which men and women participated equally?