Literacy as Gendered Discourse

A volume in Adult Education Special Topics: Theory Researchand Practice in Lifelong LearningSeries Editor: Kathleen P. King University of South FloridaThis volume continues IAP's dedication to the diverse field of international adult learning in the traditionof those books related to the We Learn and AAHE conferences. It is an edited and refereed collection andpart of the larger body of scholarly publications associated with professional organizations such asAAACE MAACE We Learn Women Studies Association African Studies Association Gender StudiesAssociation and Global Studies network.Literacy as gendered discourse is important because it fills a unique niche in the canon of studies thatinvestigate the challenges and prevailing norms associated with women and literacy studies adult learningand development. It also offers a current volume for scholars and practitioners based on both research andpractice-based research. This collection is appropriate for a wide variety of professors researchers practitioners and students in the field of adultliteracy studies women/gender and development studies.In order to create this valuable contribution to the literacy and women's studies literature international scholars have contributed their research inwhich they study and explore the lives of women in various countries. Their work establishes findings that help to illuminate and analyze the differentmanifestations of women's global experiences through the unique lens of local respondents or through their own lens as academic researchers. In theseways the results provide powerful insight and useful lessons applicable to the fields of gender study women's studies adult literacy developmentstudies international studies etc.