Introduction /Anna Robinson-Pant -- 1.'The illiterate women' : changing approaches to researching women's literacy /Anna Robinson-Pant -- 2. Distorted mirrors : (de)centring images of the 'illiterate Indian village women' through ethnographic research narratives /Priti Chopra -- 3. Implications of the new literacy studies for researching women's literacy programmes /Brian V. Street -- 4. Creating the gender texts : 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 transnational feminist praxis /Chizo Sato
Summary
This book presents a new perspective on the assumed links between women's literacy and development and explores current innovative approaches to research and policy around women's literary
