Women in
literacy speak

Women from across Canada speak out about the year they spent planning, implementing, and documenting woman-positive activities within their adult literacy and basic education programs. They explore the concept of woman-positive within learner-centred programs - forming women's groups, developing sexual harassment policies, advocating for core funding for projects that focus on gender, culture, and personal experiences that get in the way of learning.

Gaining confidence, taking chances, and making choices within the particular contexts of their lives, they chart the woman-positive ripples of their work. They demonstrate how women's lives are woven together, how they become resources for one another.

Uncovering fear and isolation, celebrating diversity and strength, they outline what happened for themselves and for others as they attempted to make space for woman-positive literacy work. These pieces test recipes for political action. They pursue a politics of talking and challenge others to consider the more than semantic differences between "woman-positive" and "feminist" practices.

ISBN 1-895686-37-7

Fernwood Publishing

CCLOW Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women