They Didn't Tell Me Anything": Women's Literacies and Resistance in Rural Mexico

Autor/in	Meyers, Susan V.
Titel	They Didn't Tell Me Anything": Women's Literacies and Resistance in Rural Mexico
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 23 (2011) 7, S.857-871 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
DOI	10.1080/09540253.2010.549110
Schlagwörter	Females; Foreign Countries; Literacy; Access to Education; Resistance (Psychology); Womens Studies; Ethnography; Case Studies; Womens Education; Social Justice; Rural Sociology; Social History; Critical Theory; Gender Bias; Gender Discrimination; Mexico + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Ausland; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Resistenz; Ethnografie; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Agrarsoziologie; Sozialgeschichte; Kritische Theorie; Geschlechterstereotyp; Mexiko
Abstract	Drawing from ethnographic case studies, this article considers issues of women's access to education by exploring the literacy experiences of four women in rural Mexico. Ironically, as physical access to education in this area has increased, women's literacy experiences have become more complex, rather than more libratory. Formal literacy, as it plays out for women in this community, is experienced as both an oppressive force as well as a tool for resistance to other forms of oppression. More importantly, the stories in this article highlight the socially dynamic nature of literacy as these four women utilise interpersonal relationships in order to subvert oppressive norms. These findings have implications both for theories of literacy as well as for educators who wish to work in more engaged ways with women and their children who emigrate from areas like rural Mexico. (Contains 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10