I'd vote NOT Gilligan or Belenky.  Both seem dated and limited.

I'd still stick with Too Scared....or something else by Horsman.

Andrea


On Jul 12, 2006, at 7:43 AM, mev at litwomen.org wrote:


> My preferences:

> 1) That since we all have limited time, let's try to read something

> that will helps us make direct connections to women & literacy

>

> 2) Too Scared to learn is very expensive ( academic press) if people

> don't have access to it -- there' s so much other good stuff available

> by Jenny Horsman - i'd be happy with any of that -- including "Take on

> the Challenge" that can also be downloaded.

>

> 3) another one I'd like to read: Septima Clark (echo in my soul is out

> of print but Ready from Within is still available)

>

> 4) NOT Gilligan [in a different voice] too old and limited in scope for

> our population

>

> 5) Women's Ways of Knowing is by Mary Belenky et.el. (having read it

> several times)  I'm not as interested in this but would "go with the

> flow" if that's the consensus.

>

> I also saw one vote for Women's Studies Quarterly. If people are really

> interested in this, I can sell copies for a discount through WE LEARN

> and I'd be willing to facilitate as "guest editor."

>

> another book not on the list yet but very good for this group could be

> "Women as Learners" edited by Elizabeth Hayes.

>

> Mev

>

> On Monday, July 10, 2006, at 09:06  AM, Daphne Greenberg wrote:

>

>> We have a few more recommendations added to the list, and I have

>> included them down below (the first few are the new ones as of July

>> 9th). And here are the vote results as of July 9th:

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

>> some other writing that she has posted on her website (

>> http://www.jennyhorsman.com/ ) or on

>> http://www.learningandviolence.net

>> Two votes for: Work by Carol Gilligan (specifically, one person

>> mentioned Women's Ways of Knowing)

>> 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

>> One vote for:  Echo in my soul or Incidents in the Life of a Slave

>> Girl or Black women in white America.

>>

>> Anyone else interested in voicing a vote for what we should read and

>> discuss over this listserv? By the way, if you do not want to post

>> your vote to the whole group, it is fine to send me an email to my

>> personal address: dgreenberg at gsu.edu As you can see from above, I

>> don't name names when I announce the votes.

>>

>>

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

>>

>> 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 for example, Women's Ways of Knowing

>>

>> 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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