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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Exploring the concept of woman-positive within learner- centred literacy programs:
A program-based action research project
21 Betty-Ann Lloyd, Halifax, NS

We formed a women's group at ALFA
Toronto ALFA Centre, Toronto, ON

Gender, culture, and personal experiences that get in the way of learning:
The need for core funding for adult literacy projects
Diane Eastman, Brandon Friendship Centre, Brandon, MB

Taking chances, making choices:
Reflections on a year of woman-positive activity
Debbie Heagy Worker Education for Skills Training (WEST)
Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, Regina, SK

Gaining confidence through woman-positive literacy research
Nicole Jessop, Worker Education for Skills Training (WEST)
Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, Regina, SK

Union-based literacy programs empower women workers
when they pay attention to women's lives
A poster developed by Debbie Heagy and Nicole Jessop

Uncovering fear and isolation in Rabbittown:
A woman-positive literacy project
Frances Ennis with Shirley Hickey, Bella Biddiscombe, Sandra Cadwell,
Betty Jackson, Cathy Short, Rabbittown Learners Program, St. John's NF

Native Women Write Now
Aboriginal Women and the Workplace, Keyano College, Fort McMurray, AB

Taking space for woman-positive literacy work
Anne Moore, Action Read, Guelph, ON

Charting the woman-positive ripples - A journal of discovery
Karen Bergman-Illnik, Arctic College, Arviat, NWT

Resource booklets
Pine Grove Correctional Centre, Prince Albert, SK

I believe our lives are woven together like a spider web
LaVera Schiele, Pine Grove Correctional Centre, Prince Albert, SK

The politics of talking:
Doing "woman-positive" in a learner-centred literacy program
Marion Wells, Saint John Learning Exchange, Saint John, NB

Recipes for political action
Women's Committee, Beat the Street, Toronto, ON

Bibliography