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Women and Literacy: Moving to Power and Participation
Women’s Studies Quarterly 32: 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 2004)
Edited by Mev Miller with Ilene Alexander

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Women and Literacy: Moving to Power and Participation
Table of Contents

Editorial
Mev Miller

Section 1: Literacy/Literacies: Meanings, Theories, and Practices
Literacy Practices: An Alternative Definition for Women-Focused 
Institutions, Pedagogy, and Research
Josie Lauritsen Lee
The Meanings of Literacy: A Participatory Action Research Project 
Involving Women with Disabilities
Heidi V. Silver-Pacuilla and Associates from the Women in Literacy 
Project
Literacy Groups in Ghana: Liberation with Limitation
Janice Windborne
Rethinking Adult Literacy Training: An Analysis through a Third World 
Feminist Perspective
Chizu Sato


Section 2: Reading/Writing: Survival, Health, and Well Being
Stories of Women, Words, and Well being: The Effect of Literacy on 
Women’s Health
Estela M. Kennen, Linda Martin, and Terry C. Davis
"My Way Out of This Life Is an Education"
Jane Maher
Spaces of Possibility: The Place of Writing in Urban Drug Treatment
Kelly Evans
"But is it Education"? The Challenge of Creating Effective Learning for 
Survivors of Trauma
Jenny Horsman


Section 3: Functions/Freedoms: Work, Welfare, & Identity
Designing Women: Gender and Power in Welfare –to- Work Educational 
Programs
Jennifer A. Sandlin
"But I Have a Bigger Future than I Thought": The Voices of Student 
Parents after Welfare Reform
Melissa Blum
Multiple Literacies and Identities: The Experiences of Two Women 
Refugees
Doris Warriner
Learning Community: Popular Education and Homeless Women
Lorna Rivera


Section 4: Literacy as Illuminated  by Literature and Poetry
Towards a New Learning System: A Freirean Reading of Sapphire’s Push
Laurie Stapleton
P.iled h.ip D.eep (poetry)
Jeryl J. Prescott
Literacy at City Tech (Poetry)
Hilary Sideris
Literacy Through Poetry: A Pilot project for Rural women in the 
Republic of Yemen
Najwa Adra
Sheherazad (Poetry)
Areej Zufari
sleeping dreams (poetry)
Rashida Lawrence
Things to Write With (prose)
Devin Cook
Her Mother’s Quiet Houses ( Poetry)
Heather Bouwman


Section 5: Pedagogical Concerns, Resources, and Book Reviews
Annotated Bibliography: Women and Literacy
Sandra Kerka and Susan Imel
Building Literacy into Courses: Syllabus & Pedagogical Considerations
Ilene D. Alexander (with sample syllabi by Jenny Horsman and Suzanne 
Smythe)
Joanne Larson's  Literacy as Snake Oil: Beyond the Quick Fix
Ujwala Samant
Madeline Arnot's  Reproducing Gender? Essay on Educational Theory and 
Feminist Politics
Jennifer Rothchild

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