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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.2/244/091724
• Soggetto topico: Literacy - Developing countries; Literacy programs - Developing countries; Women - Education - Developing countries
• Classificazione: 17.21
• Altri autori: Robinson-PantAnna <1960->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women, literacy, and development
• ISBN: 1-134-35332-4; 1-134-35333-2; 1-138-86657-1; 1-280-05150-7; 0-203-30023-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784054003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in literacy ; ; 1.