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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784054003321

Titolo

Women, literacy, and development : alternative perspectives / / edited by Anna Robinson-Pant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-35332-4

1-134-35333-2

1-138-86657-1

1-280-05150-7

0-203-30023-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in literacy ; ; 1

Classificazione

17.21

Altri autori (Persone)

Robinson-PantAnna <1960->

Disciplina

302.2/244/091724

Soggetti

Literacy - Developing countries

Literacy programs - Developing countries

Women - Education - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on the contributors; 1 'The illiterate woman'; 2 Distorted mirrors; 3 Implications of the New Literacy Studies for researching women's literacy programmes; 4 Creating the gender text; 5 Qualitative methods in researching women's literacy; 6 A self-reflexive analysis of power and positionality; 7 Functional literacy, gender and identities; 8 'Women are lions in dresses'; 9 Closing the gap; 10 Women, literacy, development, and gender; 11 'I will stay here until I die'; 12 'Literacy brought us to the forefront'

13 Functional participation14 'Out of school, now in the group'; Afterword; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Women's literacy is often assumed to be the key to promoting better health, family planning and nutrition in the developing world. This has dominated much development research and has led to women's literacy being promoted by governments and aid agencies as the key to improving the lives of poor families. High dropout rates from literacy programmes suggest that the assumed link between women's literacy



and development can be disputed. This book explores why women themselves want to learn to read and write and why, all too often, they decide that literacy classes are not for them.