ABSTRACT
This chapter examines two English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks commonly used in the primary schools in Poland to identify the social positioning of women and men. It applies the concept of heteronormativity to reveal and understand a specific set of family and social relations explicitly and implicitly promoted in investigated textbooks. Heteronormativity and heterosexism are found to be defining feature of numerous activities, identities and communities constructed in textbooks. People believe that Poland as a geopolitical reality deserves special attention as it markedly differs with respect to the treatment of concepts of gender and sexuality from majority of the European countries by treating both of these terms as highly tabooed. In light of the sociopolitical climate in Poland, the scarcity of research on the construction of gender and sexuality comes as no surprise. The analysis points to teacher's gendering of the originally nongendered texts and reveals variety of ways in which texts are consumed in a gendered manner.
