Gender in Algerian French Textbooks

Abstract

While gender in textbooks has elicited scholarly investigation in recent decades, there
has been less emphasis on masculine identity as perceived through postcolonial and decolonial lenses. This artic le addresses the limitations in the scholarship and challenges the colonial emasculation of the Algerian man through a (re) construction of masculine identity in French foreign language textbooks. The textbooks
decolonize French colonial ways
of seeing through a glorification of
Algeria’s (pre-) colonial past and its
masculine heroic leadership.