Gender, Literacy and Life Chances in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gender, Literacy and Life Chances in Sub-Saharan Africa

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Gender, Literacy and Life Chances in Sub-Saharan Africa

About this book

Taking as a starting point the taken-for-granted assumption that literacy affects women's lives in very important ways, the author provides much needed evidence from research in a rural community in Sub-Saharan Africa, that show the value of literacy in increasing the life chances of women. The book concludes with macro and micro level policy options that are necessary for critical (re)construction of women's lives in the region and elsewhere.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. 1 Introduction
  4. 2 Il/Literacy: Some Theoretical Considerations
  5. 3 The Intersections of Gender, Literacy and Power
  6. 4 The Historical and Social Context of Literacy/Education
  7. 5 A Critcal Literacy Research
  8. 6 Perceiving Il/literacy: Impact, Constraints and Possibilities: Literate Women's Accounts
  9. 7 Perceiving Il/literacy: Non-Literate Women's Accounts
  10. 8 Literacy and Life Chances: Examining the Evidence
  11. 9 From Rhetoric to Praxis: (Re)constructing Women's Life Chances and Bridging the Gender Gap in Literacy/Education
  12. References
  13. Index