[AAACE-NLA] Women and Literacy

[David Collings]

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Here are some sources on Women and Literacy...
they may not necessarily address policy issues. Most of the work I have

seen addresses barriers for women in adult education and related  
gendered oppressions. This is my "short list." I've included it in the  
body below because I do not know if this list will accept attachments.  
If you would like this as a pdf, please let me know.
Mev

Resource List of Books, Materials & Websites Related to Women & Literacy
Prepared by Mev Miller, ED.D. for WE LEARN Last Updated, September, 2003

Bibliography of Books & Articles
This is a listing of books and resources for educators and researchers  
interested in learning more about issues for women and literacy.

Forthcoming
Miller, M, & Alexander, I. (2004). Women and Literacy: Moving  from  
Power to Participation. Women's Studies Quarterly – Special Issue  
Spring 2004. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY.
The WSQ issue when it comes out will include an annotated bibliography  
and the materials quoted by authors will also be important.

Books & Articles
Atkinson, T., Ennis, F. and Lloyd,  B-A. (1994). Listen to  women in  
literacy: The power of woman-positive literacy work. Toronto, ONT.:   
CCLOW - Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women with  
Fernwood Publishing.

Ballara, M. (1992). Women and literacy. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed  
Books Ltd.

Brown, C.S. (1990). Ready from within, A first person narrative:  
Septima Clark and the civil rights movement. Trenton, NJ: Africa World  
Press.

Cox, R., & Sanders, L. (1988). Women & literacy. Canadian Woman Studies

/ les cahiers de la femme, 9 (3 & 4)
.
Gayfer, M. (Ed.) (1980). Special report: Women in adult education.  
Convergence. Convergencia, Convergence, 8 (1-2).

Hayes, E. & Flannery, D.D., (eds.). (2000). Women as learners: The  
significance of gender in adult learning. San Francisco, CA:  
Jossey-Bass.

Heller, C.E. (1997). Until we are all strong together: Women writers in

the Tenderloin. New York: Teachers College.

Horsman, J. (1990). Something in my mind besides the everyday: Women  
and literacy. Toronto: Women's Press, Canada.

Horsman, J. (2000). Too scared to learn: Women, violence and education.

Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.

Imel, S. & Kerka, S. (1996). Women and Literacy: Guide to the  
Literature and Issues for Woman-positive Programs. Columbus: ERIC  
Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education, the Ohio  
State University. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 400 381).
This publication is intended to support efforts that focus literacy  
programs on women. It serves as a guide to information and resources on

women and literacy. An updated version will appear in WSQ, Spring 2004.

Lanehart, S.L. (2002). Sista, speak: Black women kinfolk talk about  
language and literacy. Austin, TX: Univ. of Texas Press.

Laubach Literacy Action,  (1995). By women / for women: A beginning  
dialogue on women and literacy in the United States. Syracuse, NY:  
Laubach Literacy Action.

Miller, M. (2000). Feminist resources and curriculum for women  
achieving literacy. Minneapolis, MN. : Research was made possible with  
a grant from The LuAnn Dummer Center for Women Graduate Student  
Research Award, 1999-2000. Univ. of St. Thomas. , (ERIC Document  
Reproduction Service No. ED 445 250). [On-line]  
http://www.edrs.com/Webstore/Detail.CFM?Ednumber=ED445250

Miller, M. (2002). Women’s literacy power: Collaborative approaches to  
developing and distributing women’s literacy resources (Doctoral  
Dissertation, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, MN. 2002).  
Dissertation Abstracts International, 63, 09A, 3085. Also [On-Line]  
http://www.litwomen.org/Dissertation/dissindex.html.

Miller, S.S. (March 1996). Sharing ideas and language with illiterate  
women: A challenge for print feminism. Proceedings of the 1996 World  
Conference on Literacy, Philadelphia,  [On-line],  
http://www.literacyonline.org/products/ili/pdf/ilprocsm.pdf.

Nonesuch, K., (Ed.) (1996). Making Connections: A Literacy and EAL  
Curriculum from a Feminist Perspective. Toronto: CCLOW - Canadian  
Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women.

Olson, G.A. & Hirsh, E. (1995). Feminist praxis and the politics of  
literacy: A conversation with bell hooks. In Olson, G.A. & Hirsh, E.,  
(eds.). women writing culture (pp. 105-137). Albany: State University  
Press of New York.

Royster, J.J. (2000). Traces of a stream: Literacy and social change  
among African American women. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh  
Press.

Taylor, D. , (Ed.) (1997). Many families, many literacies: An  
international declaration of principles. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Walters, S. & Manicom, L. (1996). Gender in popular education: Methods  
for empowerment. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Books.

Wikelund, K. Reed (1993, November). Motivations for learning: voices of

women welfare reform participants. Philadelphia: National Center on  
Adult Literacy,  (NCAL Techincal Report TR93-10),  
http://litserver.literacy.upenn.edu/ncal/index.html.


Fiction
Bledsoe, L.J. (1997). Working Parts (A Novel). Seattle, WA: Seal Press.

Molteno, M. (2000). A Language in common. North Melbourne, Vic.  
Australia: Addenda (distributed by Spinifex Press).

Sapphire,  (1996). Push: A Novel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.


Women-Centered Literacy Materials
See annotated listing on the WE LEARN website
http://www.litwomen.org/Resources.html


Websites of interest for Women and Literacy

WE LEARN – Women Expanding: Literacy Education Action Resource Network
www.litwomen.org/welearn.html WE LEARN promotes women’s literacy as a
tool for education and  
transformation through a network of learners, literacy workers,  
librarians, educators, and writers committed to and involved in the  
process of creating women-centered (feminist) adult basic literacy  
materials.

Women and Literacy Special Collection sponsored by NIFL – temporarily  
housed as
http://www.womensliteracy.org/
This special collection will eventually be housed from the NIFL website

from this link: http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/collections/collections.html

Literacy Resources / Rhode Island
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Swearer_Center/Literacy_Resources/ 
women.html
Literacy Resources/Rhode Island was established in 1997 to: * expand  
existing professional capacity within Rhode Island's adult education  
community; * increase educators' and learners' capacity to use and  
interact with online technology, and * assist in improving delivery of  
services to adult learners, thereby strengthening adult education  
provision across the state. They have a great page of interesting items

on women and literacy.

ProLiteracy Worldwide connected sites
Women in Literacy/Women in Action
http://www.laubach.org/WIL/USA/usa.html
Women in Literacy/USA was started in 1994, and although it has a  
different character than the program in developing countries, it too  
focused on helping women achieve a level of learning that will help  
them solve the problems in their lives and attain their goals.

Women in Action
http://www.womeninliteracy.org/index2.html
is the continuation of Laubach Literacy's successful 10-year global  
initiative - Women in Literacy. The goal of Women in Action is to help  
women undertake 2,000 life-changing projects in marginalized  
communities in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas by the  
year 2005.

Mujeres Unidas en Accion, Inc. / Women United in Action, Inc.
http://www2.wgbh.org/mbcweis/ltc/wun/homepage.htm#home
Mujeres Unidas en Acción, Inc. is a community-based learning center in  
Dorchester, Massachusetts, created by and for women and their children.

Mujeres Unidas reponds to the special needs of Latino immigrant women  
who, upon arriving in the United States, confront barriers including  
language, poverty, cultural and social differences, isolation,  
discrimination, racism and, in some cases, a lack of formal education.  
Through education and support services that are designed to facilitate  
educational, social and economic growth, we strive to present new  
opportunities to Latino women. Our mission is to strengthen the voice  
of low-income Latino women and to empower Latino families to  
participate more actively in the political, social and economic life  
not only of the Latino community, but also of society at large.

Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education
http://www.readwriteact.org/womenlit.html
This is a general list of internet-based women's literacy and education

resources


  Listserve
Women and Literacy Discussion List -- sponsored by NIFL and hosted by  
Daphne Greenberg at the Center for the Study of Adult Literacy (CSAL)  
-- is designed for providers, advocates, researchers, learners, policy  
makers, and all other persons who are interested in exploring the  
linkages between women's lives and their literacies.
http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/nifl-womenlit/women_literacy.html


Specific Materials for Women Learners
The WE LEARN website contains several links to writing by adult women  
learners. Descriptions and links to this work can be found from these  
two places: http://www.litwomen.org/learnmats/nonbook.html#website
or
http://www.litwomen.org/lwritings.html

Off of these links, perhaps the most significant are:

365/24/7 -- Moms on Duty with NO Pay: A Radio Program for International

Women's Day, March 8, 2002
http://www.litwomen.org/learnwrite/RadioBook.pdf

Breast Cancer As I Lived It
http://www.worlded.org/us/health/docs/MScanlon2/index.htm

Health Education and Adult Literacy HEAL: Breast and Cervical Cancer
http://www.worlded.org/us/health/heal/index.htm

Where there is life, there is hope: Women literacy students and  
discrimination
http://www.nald.ca/CLR/lifehope/cover.htm


Websites by women in adult literacy/learning centers

Mujer: Mothers United for Jobs Education and Results, Culebra Moms of  
the Culebra Workforce Center's "Choices" Class
http://members.aol.com/culebramom/mujer.html
Websites by/for Adult Learners
These are NOT specifically focused towards women but are general sites  
by adult basic education student organizations

Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education
http://www.readwriteact.org/
(SCALE) - The Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education  
(SCALE) is a network of college students, adult learners,  
administrators, literacy practitioners and community partners working  
to implement and support participatory education and social change work

in campus-based literacy programs.

Voice for Adult Literacy United for Education - (VALUE)
http://www.literacynet.org/value/ It is VALUE's mission to help adult
learners become effective leaders  
in their education programs. From that experience, learners can then  
apply their leadership skills in their communities, workplaces, and  
families. They have some links to writings by women on their site.

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VIDEO

Hope Is a Literate Woman http://www.laubach.org/Videos/hope.html


Together We Bloom: Women Speaking Out Against Domestic Violence, Judy  
Hofer
Description: Also available through Laubach Literacy Action
see also Civic Participation and Community Action Sourcebook section 4:

http://hub1.worlded.org/docs/vera/saying.htm.
Also has a book to accompany Subjects: Violence
Literacy Project, date unknown, no isbn, Video, $29.95.
http://hub1.worlded.org/docs/vera/saying.htm


WE LEARN
Women Expanding: Literacy Education Action Resource Network
www.litwomen.org/welearn.html

Mev Miller, Ed.D., Coordinator
182 Riverside Ave.
Cranston, RI 02910
401-383-4374
401-383-4374 (fax)
welearn at litwomen.org


On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 04:15  PM, Carl Guerriere wrote:

> Hi Friends,
>
> Another friend is looking for information related to women and
> literacy,
> particulary data that could be used to affect policy decisions.  Any
> suggestions on where to look?, people to contact?
>
> Carl Guerriere
> Executive Director/Literacy Advocate
> Greater Hartford Literacy Council
> 99 Pratt Street
> Hartford, CT  06103
> (860) 522-7323 (522-READ)
> www.greaterhartfordreads.org
> Fax: (860) 722-2486
> Reading. It takes you places.
>
>
>
> <ATT00073.htm>

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