Part 1: Questioning Women's Literacy: New Research Approaches 1. The Illiterate Woman: Changing Approaches to Researching Women's Literacy, Anna Robinson-Pant 2. Distorted Mirrors: (de)centring of the 'illiterate Indian Village Woman' Through Ethnographic Research Narratives Priti Chopra 3. Implications of the New Literacy Studies for Researching Women's Literacy Programmes Brian Street 4. Creating the Gender Text: Literacy and Discourse in Rural El Salvador Julia Betts 5. Qualitative Methods in Researching Women's Literacy: A Case Study Shirin Zubair 6. A Self-Reflexive Analysis of Power and Positionality: Toward a Feminist Praxis Chizo Sato Part 2: Identifying the Issues: A Gendered Perspective on Literary Policy and Programming 7. Functional Literacy, Gender and Identities: Policy and Practice Alan Rogers, Archana Patkar and L.S. Saraswathi 8. Women are Lions in Dresses: Negotiating Gender Relations in REFLECT Learning Circles in Lesotho Gillian Attwood, Jane Castle and Suzanne Smythe 9. Closing the gap: Issues in Gender Integrated Training of Adult Literacy Facilitators: Possibilities, Progress and Resistance Juliet McCaffery 10. Women, Literacy, Development and Gender: A Telling Case Involving a HIV Positive Woman Donna Bulman Part 3: Learning from Experience 11. I Will Stay Here Until I Die: A Critical Analysis of the Muthande Literacy Programme Juliet Millican 12. We Were Nowhere We Were Not (present) on Any Maps Literacy Brought us to the Forefront: Literacy and Empowering Processes for Dalit Community Women in a Mumbai Slum Suhata Khandekar
13. Functional participation? Questioning participatory attempts at reshaping
Biography
Anna Robinson-Pant is a Lecturer at the Centre for Applied Research in Education at the University of East Anglia. As a development planner, teacher trainer and researcher with various international aid agencies, she has spent much of her working life in South Asia. Her publications include Why Eat Green Cucumber at the Time of Dying? (2001), an ethnographic study of women's literacy programmes in Nepal which won the UNESCO International Award for Literacy Research.
