[WomenLiteracy 447] Re: update on read and discuss ideas $$$
Andrea Wilder
andreawilder at comcast.net
Mon Jul 17 21:52:11 EDT 2006
I just checked on Bookfinder.com--a book for 16.79. (Too Scared to
learn)
i also checked on Used.addall.com and got 2 books, one for 14.59, the
other for 7.93.(Too Scared....)
I am sure there are other booklists, and I will get some more tomorrow.
Try your library?
xxAndrea
On Jul 17, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Ryan Hall wrote:
> 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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