Women and literacy : local and global inquiries for a new century / edited by Beth Daniell, Peter Mortensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daniell, Beth, 1947-

Mortensen, Peter, 1961-

Series:

NCTE-LEA research series in literacy and composition

NCTE-LEA research series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Education.

Women.

Literacy.

Women--Books and reading.

Physical Description:

xix, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates ; Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, [2007]

Summary:

Path-breaking research on women and literacy in the past decade established conventions and advanced innovative methods that push the making of knowledge into new spheres of inquiry. Taking these accomplishments as a point of departure, this volume empha

Contents:

Introduction: researching women and literacy: usable pasts, possible futures / Peter Mortensen and Beth Daniell. I. Women's literacies situated locally: past, present, and future. Feeling literate: gender, race, and work in Dorothy West's "The typewriter" / Donna Strickland

Crusader: Ethel Azalea Johnson's use of the written word as a weapon of liberation / Rhea Estelle Lathan

Virginia mountain women writing to government officials: letters of request as social participation / Katrina M. Powell

Reconsidering power, privilege, and the public/private distinction in the literacy of rural women / Kim Donehower

Sponsoring clubs: cultivating rural identities through literacy / Charlotte Hogg

Literacy on the margins: Louisa May Alcott's pragmatic rhetoric / Hephzibah Roskelly and Kate Ronald

"Diverse in sentiment and form": feminist poetry as radical literate practice, 1968-1975 / Kathryn T. Flannery

Branded literacy: the entrepreneurship of Oprah's book club / Bonnie Kathryn Smith. II. Women's literacies in a globally interdependent world. Professing "Western" literacy: globalization and women's education at the Western College for Women / Shevaun Watson and Morris Young

Considering the meanings of literacy in a postcolonial setting: the case of Tunisia / Keith Walters

Women and the global ecology of digital literacies / Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe, with Kate Coffield and Safia El-Wakil

The emotional effects of literacy: Vietnamese women negotiating the shift to a market economy / Ilene Whitney Crawford

Post-apartheid literacies: South African women's poetry of orality, franchise, and reconciliation / Mary K. DeShazer

Gender and literacies: the Korean "comfort women's" testimonials / Gwendolyn Gong

The outlook for global women's literacy / Catherine L. Hobbs

Segue

Afterword: reading literacy research against the grain of fast capitalism / Min-Zhan Lu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805860061

9780805860061

080586007X

9780805860078

1410616037

9781410616036

OCLC:

70883084

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