This thesis analyses home-economic textbooks from three decades. Home-economics textbooks from 1996 (right after the passing of the law that required mixed home-economy classes), 2002, 2011 and...Show moreThis thesis analyses home-economic textbooks from three decades. Home-economics textbooks from 1996 (right after the passing of the law that required mixed home-economy classes), 2002, 2011 and 2020 will be analysed on their use of gender bias as well as their depiction of fatherhood using the ‘doing gender’ framework by West (1987). The goal of this thesis is to get a better picture on how the use of gendered biases have changed and how they still persist in textbooks that are used in the present-day. While all four textbooks includes passages in the preface on the importance of a gender equal society, the use of gender biases can tell us something about how this society is imagined and what the goals of educators, civil servants and the creators of the textbook are.Show less