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women's illiteracy in light of this feminist framework, examines the role of the state as a critical mediator between women and literacy, and draws implications for future action by both state and nongovernmental agencies. Accounting for Women's Illiteracy.
- Abolitionists Agitate Through Written Word
- Literacy Threatens Justification of Slavery
- After Civil War, Schools Spring Up
African American literacy wasn’t just problematic to enslavers because of the potential for illuminating Biblical readings. “Anti-literacy laws were written in response to the rise of abolitionism in the north,” says Breen. One of the most threatening abolitionists of the time was Black New Englander David Walker. From 1829-1830, he distributed the...
Black Americans’ literacy also threatened a major justification of slavery—that Black people were “less than human, permanently illiterate and dumb,” Lusane says. “That gets disproven when African Americans were educated, and undermines the logic of the system.” States fighting to hold on to slavery began tightening literacy laws in the early 1830s...
Antislavery ideas had already spread, largely through the written word. As Roth points out, “Literacy promotes thought and raises consciousness. It helps you to get outside of your own cultural constraints and think about things from a totally different angle.” The view that slavery was wrong and should be ended was reinforced through written texts...
- Colette Coleman
Feb 1, 1990 · women-literacy constitutes an essential tool in their efforts to gain legal and socioeconomic rights. The proportion of illiterates in the world population, be they men or
Jan 12, 2019 · Early Americans often believed it was a waste to educate women past the basics since they would need to run a home and raise a family. Half the women born around 1730 were illiterate.
Grounded in Black feminist theory, this article describes a longitudinal study of the critical consciousness development of two young Black women as they engaged in distinct literacy practices to navigate and resist racial oppression in high school.
The author draws from Mario Klarer's 1995 article "Orality and literacy as gender-supporting structures in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale", accepting the position that disallowance of literacy helps to solidify and maintain oppressive authoritarian political structures.
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Research has identified various benefits of literacy for women, such as better maternal behaviors regarding child health and child rearing, and effective family planning. Although women could literacy to increase their access to new knowledge, most literacy.
