Well, I would be willing to read and talk about almost any one of these
already listed.  The one exception might be "A Child Called 'It,'" but
only because I think that book has been discredited or at least its
truthfulness has been challenged by other family members, I'm not so
sure which.  And maybe it's the truth, who knows?  Past abuse is so
often challenged and denied.  

I would particularly be interested in reading some of the stuff by
Carol Gilligan and her colleagues:  "Women's Ways of Knowing" comes to
mind, as something I read quite a while ago but would love to re-read
and discuss in this context.  My other "fave" would be "Too Scared to
Learn."  Ot something else of Jenny's.  

One more suggestion I might make, if I can find it again (I haven't
read this book for years, either):  "Coming of Age in Mississippi" by
Ann Moody.   That book, which is still in print, 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.  Both are extremely moving and powerful accounts.  And,
that also reminds me of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," by Maya
Angelou.  These are some of my favorite books, from my "youth" and I
would love the opportunity to re-read and discuss them with colleagues.

Laurie Sheridan


>>> ALCDGG at langate.gsu.edu 07/07 12:53 PM >>>

Thanks for all the great replies! We have a few more recommendations
added to the list, and I have included them down below (the first 6 are
the new ones as of July 6th).

Vote results as of July 6th:
3 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/ ) 
One vote for: A Child Called It or The Secret Life of Bees
One vote for: Work by Carol Gilligan or 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 6 are the new ones):

A Child Called It

The Secret Life of Bees

Work by Carol Gilligan

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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