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The Role of Illustrations in the Construction of Gender IdentitiesPage 1 of 6
Author: Ana Badanelli Introduction to the Chapter This chapter analyses some of the illustrations found in school textbooks of the Franco regime in order to determine the way in which the construction of gender identities is carried out through the iconic strategy.
Paragraph 1: Initial Considerations This last section of the essay pays special attention to the illustrations found in school textbooks. It also aims at inserting essential iconographic references in the study of History in order to approach a global understanding. We can not forget that pictures and images allow the historian to uncover aspects of the past which are not transmitted through written sources. They are richer sources in certain nuances and as visual sources; they have huge power in the transmission of ideas or messages. In this specific case study, images emerge as the perfect vehicle to convey feelings or emotions because they use didactic resources which are not possible to be used by written texts, and which are essential in the world of feelings such as, for example, gestures of the face or the body, actions, settings, etc.. In the complex world of emotions and the difficulty of addressing their study, this analysis focuses on those that help in process of identification of the human being or person, as a man or a woman, in order to understand the social relations established between both sexes. |
