local and global inquiries for a new century
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Daniell, Beth > (ed.)
- Creator
- Mortensen, Peter > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, schrijvers, dichters, oral history, levensgeschiedenissen, gender, economie, sociale klasse, onderwijs, computers, seksueel geweld, samenlevingen, Verenigde Staten, wereld
- Description
- The final years of the twentieth century have produced new knowledge about women´s literacy. Building on and critiquing scholarship in literacy studies, composition studies, rhetorical theory, gender studies, postcolonial theory, and cultural studies, the contributors to this volume discuss what literacies are. Yet their strongest interest is in documenting and theorizing women´s lived experience of these literacies.They committed not just to telling stories or theorizing about them, but also to the women whose stories they report and analyze, including historical figures such as Louisa May Alcott, and Dorothy West: feminist writers of the sixties and seventies: or women in other parts of the world, such as those in Vietnam struggling with English and Japanese: or in South Africa dealing with the legacy of apartheid: or contemporary women in the mountains of North Carolina, the plains of Nebraska, and the cities of Tunisia: or old women in Korea finally telling stories of their sexual exploitation during World -War II.