Women and Literacy

by Beth Daniell (Editor), Peter Mortensen (Editor)

Path-breaking research on women and literacy in the past decade established conventions and advanced innovative methods that push the making of knowledge into new spheres of inquiry. Taking these accomplishments as a point of departure, this volume emphasizes the diversity―of approaches and subjects―that characterizes the next generation of research on women and literacy. It builds on and critiques scholarship in literacy studies, composition studies, rhetorical theory, gender studies, postcolonial theory, and cultural studies to open new venues for future research.

Contributors discuss what literacy is―more precisely, what literacies are―but their strongest interest is in documenting and theorizing women’s lived experience of these literacies, with particular attention to:

360 pages, Paperback

First published June 22, 2007