Table of Contents
Contents: Preface. P. Mortensen, B. Daniell, Introduction: Researching Women and Literacy: Usable Pasts, Possible Futures. Part I: Women’s Literacies Situated Locally: Past, Present, and Future. D. Strickland, Feeling Literate: Gender, Race, and Work in Dorothy West’s “The Typewriter”. R.E. Lathan, Crusader: Ethel Azalea Johnson’s Use of the Written Word as a Weapon of Liberation. K.M. Powell, Virginia Mountain Women Writing to Government Officials: Letters of Request as Social Participation. K. Donehower, Reconsidering Power, Privilege, and the Public/Private Distinction in the Literacy of Rural Women. C. Hogg, Sponsoring Clubs: Cultivating Rural Identities Through Literacy. H. Roskelly, K. Ronald, Literacy on the Margins: Louisa May Alcott’s Pragmatic Rhetoric. K.T. Flannery, “Diverse in Sentiment and Form”: Feminist Poetry as Radical Literate Practice, 1968-1975. B.K. Smith, Branding Literacy: The Entrepreneurship of Oprah’s Book Club. Part II: Women’s Literacies in a Globally Interdependent World. S. Watson, M. Young, Professing “Western” Literacy: Globalization and Women’s Education at the Western College for Women. K. Walters, Considering the Meanings of Literacy in a Postcolonial Setting: The Case of Tunisia. G.E. Hawisher, C.L. Selfe, with K. Coffield and S. El-Wakil, Women and the Global Ecology of Digital Literacies. I.W. Crawford, The Emotional Effects of Literacy: Vietnamese Women Negotiating the Shift to a Market Economy. M.K. DeShazer, Postapartheid Literacies: South African Women’s Poetry of Orality, Franchise, and Reconciliation. G. Gong, Gender and Literacies: The Korean “Comfort Women’s” Testimonies. C.L. Hobbs, The Outlook for Global Women’s Literacy. Segue. M-Z. Lu, Afterword: Reading Literacy Research Against the Grain of Fast Capitalism.