Feminist Critical Discourse Studies and Japan’s English as a Foreign Language Textbooks

Abstract

The following consists of a literature review of three areas of research: Japanese feminist and gender studies history, Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), and gender focused critical analysis of textbooks. Organized by these themes, the author attempts to weave together the relevant literature with the goal of refining a methodological approach for a future research project: a feminist CDS research approach to an English as a foreign language (EFL) textbook series used in Japanese public schools.