good point- getting it from the library certainly solves the cost barrier
for people here in the US at least.


On 7/17/06 12:28 PM, "Cummings, Nancy" <NCummings at washoecounty.us> wrote:


> Just a thought---You might want to check with your public library for a copy

> of this.  Also, public libraries around the nation will inter-library loan

> items for you as well if they do not have a copy available.  Interlibrary loan

> services are often free as they are here at Washoe County Library System.

> 

> Nancy Cummings

> Library Director

> Ncummings at washoecounty.us

> 

> "If you can dream it, you can do it"  Walt Disney

> 

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: womenliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov

> [mailto:womenliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov]On Behalf Of Ryan Hall

> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 8:27 AM

> To: The Women and Literacy Discussion List

> Subject: [WomenLiteracy 444] Re: update on read and discuss ideas

> 

> 

> Andrea, 

> Mev brought up a good point about Too Scared to Learn, which is the cost. I

> paid either $42 or $47 for my copy three months ago from amazon.com. I

> wouldn't have bought it except for the fact that I previewed another copy

> and knew I really wanted it despite the cost. Many people in this listserv,

> including myself, are not going to want to pay so much money for a book they

> aren't sure they'll use OR they simply won't have the money to buy the book.

> Either way, the cost for this book alone may exclude a lot of people on this

> listserv who might otherwise participate in the discussion. And, I wonder,

> too, how easy it would be for people who are not here in the US or Canada to

> actually get the book. So, potentially there would be more exclusions.

> I'm wondering if it would be better to discuss something else Jenny Horsman

> has written (perhaps something on the internet that more people can get) and

> then use the book as an optional resource for the discussion. What do you

> think? Do you (or anyone else) have another idea on how this could work?

> Ryan

> 

> On 7/17/06 8:20 AM, "Andrea Wilder" <andreawilder at comcast.net> wrote:

> 

>> Daphne,

>> 

>> This is a great list!

>> 

>> I still hope we do "Too Scared...."

>> 

>> Andrea

>> 

>> 

>> On Jul 16, 2006, at 5:19 PM, Daphne Greenberg wrote:

>> 

>>> It looks like most people want to read something by Jenny Horsman.  9

>>> people have voted for reviewing something on her website. I will get

>>> back to everyone shortly about next steps.

>>> 

>>> Here are the final vote results (and scroll down for correct author

>>> for Women's way of Knowing in list and one new reference)

>>> 9 people have voted for Jenny Horsman's writing that she has posted on

>>> her website ( http://www.jennyhorsman.com/ ) or on

>>> http://www.learningandviolence.net

>>> 6 people have voted for Jenny Horsman's Too Scared to Learn book.

>>> Two votes for Women's Ways of Knowing by Mary Belenky

>>> Two votes for:  Echo in my soul or Incidents in the Life of a Slave

>>> Girl or Black women in white America.

>>> One vote for Women as Learners by Elizabeth Hayes

>>> One vote for: Work by Carol Gilligan

>>> One vote for: "Coming of Age in Mississippi" by Ann Moody or her

>>> recent account of her experiences as a young high school student in

>>> the late '50's or early '60s in sit-ins in the South, at the very

>>> beginnings of the Civil Rights movement.

>>> One vote for "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," by Maya Angelou.

>>> One vote for: A Child Called It or The Secret Life of Bees

>>> One vote for the Change Agent or Sheryl Gowen's Friends from the

>>> Kitchen

>>> 

>>> Updated list of printed materials (the first two are the new ones):

>>> 

>>> Women as Learners by Elizabeth Hayes

>>> 

>>> Women's Ways of Knowing by Mary Belenky

>>> 

>>> A new website on Learning and Violence

>>> http://www.learningandviolence.net

>>> 

>>> "Coming of Age in Mississippi" by Ann Moody or her recent account of

>>> her experiences as a young high school student in the late '50's or

>>> early '60s in sit-ins in the South, at the very beginnings of the

>>> Civil

>>> Rights movement.

>>> 

>>> "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," by Maya Angelou

>>> 

>>> Work by Carol Gilligan

>>> 

>>> A Child Called It

>>> 

>>> The Secret Life of Bees

>>> 

>>> 

>>> Clark, Septima P. (1962). Echo in my soul. New York: E. P. Dutton & C0.

>>> 

>>> Jacobs, H. A. (1987). Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written

>>> by herself. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Original work

>>> published in 1861).

>>> 

>>> Lerner, G. (Ed.) (1972). Black women in white America: A documentary

>>> history. New York: Pantheon Books-Random house.

>>> 

>>> Are Women Human? By Catherine A. MacKinnon

>>> 

>>> Something in My Mind Besides the Everyday   By J. Horsman

>>> 

>>> Too scared to learn by J. Horsman

>>> 

>>> By Women/For Women Laubach

>>> 

>>> Women's Studies Quarterly #32 (1/2) on Women and Literacy (2004)

>>> 

>>> Lorna Rivera's chapter in Women's Studies Quarterly #32 (1/2) on Women

>>> and Literacy (2004)

>>> 

>>> Kathleen Weiler on Freirean pedagogy from a feminist viewpoint

>>> 

>>> Sheryl Gowen and Jennifer Bartlett (1997) Friends in the Kitchen A

>>> chapter in Hull's edited book, changing work, changing workers*

>>> 

>>> Change Agent #19 on Women and literacy by teachers and learners

>>> 

>>> Women and literacy related materials found at:

>>> http://www.litwomen.org/womlitbiblio.html

>>> 

>>> Disconnecting and sexuality: speaking the unspeakable in the classroom

>>> (1993) by Kathleen Rockhill

>>> 

>>> Illiterate woman in women, literacy, and development by Anna

>>> Robinson-Pants

>>> 

>>> Chizu Sato's piece in women, literacy, and development by Anna

>>> Robinson-Pants

>>> 

>>> bell hooks

>>> 

>>> bell hooks "talking back" chapter 4, or chapters 4-8

>>> 

>>> Oakland Readers Series on women, enterprising women (Marilyn Martin

>>> Jones)

>>> 

>>> A chapter by Jane Mace in her book, playing with time

>>> 

>>> Bonny Norton's chapter on literacy and gender

>>> 

>>> Jean Barr's work on liberating knowledge: research feminism and adult

>>> education

>>> 

>>> Canadian Women's Studies issue on Women and Literacy

>>> 

>>> Women and literacy related materials found at:

>>> http://www.nald.ca/cclow/search/search_res.asp?s=subject&q=18

>>> 

>>> Take on the Challenge: A source book from the women, violence, and

>>> adult education project:

>>> http://www.worlded.org/docs/takeonthechallenge.pdf

>>> 

>>> When Dad hurts Mom: Helping Your Children Heal the Wounds of

>>> Witnessing Abuse by Lundy Bancroft

>>> 

>>> Why does he do that? By Lundy Bancroft

>>> 

>>> 

>>> Daphne Greenberg

>>> Assistant Professor

>>> Educational Psych. & Special Ed.

>>> Georgia State University

>>> P.O. Box 3979

>>> Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3979

>>> phone: 404-651-0127

>>> fax:404-651-4901

>>> dgreenberg at gsu.edu

>>> 

>>> Daphne Greenberg

>>> Associate Director

>>> Center for the Study of Adult Literacy

>>> Georgia State University

>>> P.O. Box 3977

>>> Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3977

>>> phone: 404-651-0127

>>> fax:404-651-4901

>>> dgreenberg at gsu.edu

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