Analysis of textbooks in Brazil and Spain: an introduction to the subject in Physical Education area

This paper has the aim to revise the documents that concentrate on the analysis of textbooks in Physical Education. The 17 documents retrieved, between 2000 and 2012, revealed that in the textbooks' images prevail the women with slim bodies and muscular men. Without taking into account the ethnic, age and multiform diversity, the images exalt white, athletic and slim people. Therefore, it is possible to affirm that stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination in relation to genre, age, ethnic group, race and corporal patterns still prevail in the images and texts of the books analysed by the Brazilian and Spanish authors.