Women and literacy
Subtitle: local and global inquiries for a new century
By: edited by Beth Daniell, Peter Mortensen
Contributors: Daniell, Beth, 1947-; Mortensen, Peter, 1961-
Series: NCTE-LEA research series; NCTE-LEA research series in literacy and composition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; National Council of Teachers of English; Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York; Urbana, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780805860061; 9780805860078; 9781410616036
Subjects: Women -- Education; Literacy; Women -- Books and reading
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Crusader: Ethel Azalea Johnson's use of the written word as a weapon of liberation / Rhea Estelle Lathan; title: Virginia mountain women writing to government officials: letters of request as social participation / Katrina M. Powell; title: Reconsidering power, privilege, and the public/private distinction in the literacy of rural women / Kim Donehower; title: Sponsoring clubs: cultivating rural identities through literacy / Charlotte Hogg; title: Literacy on the margins: Louisa May Alcott's pragmatic rhetoric / Hephzibah Roskelly and Kate Ronald; title: "Diverse in sentiment and form": feminist poetry as radical literate practice, 1968-1975 / Kathryn T. Flannery; title: 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; title: Considering the meanings of literacy in a postcolonial setting: the case of Tunisia / Keith Walters; title: Women and the global ecology of digital literacies / Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe, with Kate Coffield and Safia El-Wakil; title: The emotional effects of literacy: Vietnamese women negotiating the shift to a market economy / Ilene Whitney Crawford; title: Post-apartheid literacies: South African women's poetry of orality, franchise, and reconciliation / Mary K. DeShazer; title: Gender and literacies: the Korean "comfort women's" testimonials / Gwendolyn Gong; title: The outlook for global women's literacy / Catherine L. Hobbs; title: Segue; title: Afterword: reading literacy research against the grain of fast capitalism / Min-Zhan Lu