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During the past three decades, the position of women and their role in society has been one of the dominant social issues in the revolutionary regime's ideology in Libya. The political socialisation process has played a significant role in changing Libyan’s attitu-des towards women. This was done through numbers of social- lisation agents such as the educ-ation system, especially through the school curricula. This paper seeks to explore the official attitudes regarding wom-en through a content analysis of school curricula "reading books” up to the ninth grade. The results of the content analysis showed that, the most common themes in the reading books can be ment-ioned as follows: [women and education 28%; women wives and mothers 22%; women and the labour force 21%; women and family 13%; the characteristics of Muslim women 8%; women and activities 6%: women at arms 2% and finally women and politics 1%]. The themes about the role of women which were covered in the school curricula did not adeq-uately reflect the practical and widely-publicised official policies of the Libyan regime towards women.
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