Essays that consider the way that women are portrayed in foreign language textbooks are presented. The selected essays were submitted to a competition sponsored by the Federation Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes, which requested that language teachers assess such concerns as: (1) whether women were described in a stereotyped way; (2) whether the descriptions reinforced certain prejudices; (3) whether the view presented by the textbook was a true representation of women's role in the society in which they lived, as well as the country in which the target language is spoken; and (4) the attitudes associated with their textbook activities. The essays are as follows: "Hungarian Women in Reality," Kata Ittzes; "'Italiano Vivo' and Its Women," Dino Bressan; "The Seven Sisters," Sandra D. Lingskog; "Sexism in the Foreign-Language Classroom," Jean S. Bidwell; "The Limits of My Language Are the Limits of My World," Fairlee W. Carroll; "Spanish Language Instruction and the Role of Women," Barbara Gonzales; "The Role of Women in 'Speak English,'" Bernadette Grandcolas; "The Role of Women in 'Le Francais et la Vie,'" G. Christopher Hartley; "The Role of Women in the 'Eating Course in German,'" Brian O. Murdoch and Ursula I. Murdoch; "Zur Rolle der Frau im Lehrbuch 'Etudes francaises,'" Elivara Ott-Eckrich; "Women in the World of 'Kernel Lessons Intermediate,'" Hilary Rees-Parnall; "Cultural Chauvinism in Foreign-Language Textbooks," Anneliese Sartori Stein. (SW)