The NIFL-WOMENLIT list is designed for providers, advocates, researchers,
learners, policy makers, and all other persons who are interested
in exploring the linkages between women's lives and their literacies.
The NIFL-WOMENLIT online discussion list has three primary goals:
The first goal is to foster discussion and information exchanges
on women and literacy among people who are separated by distance and
therefore not typically able to interact. Possible topics include:
women and literacy in countries outside the United States, health
literacy as it pertains to women's issues, the role of women's literacy
in family literacy programs, domestic violence and its intersection
with literacy, women's literacy levels and its ties to economics and
welfare of families, women's access to literacy in different cultures,
connection between women's literacy and public policy, identification
of low literate women's communication networks, and discussion of
action steps addressing women and literacy.
The second goal is to share resources on issues related to women
and literacy. The list should be the first place that people in the
field turn to when they have a question or need a solution in the
area of women and literacy.
The third goal is to encourage an exploration of potential research
projects in the area of women and literacy, by providing an open forum
for the exchange of relevant ideas.
Recent topics have included writing and women learners, domestic
violence and its intersection with literacy, women's literacy levels
and its ties to economics and welfare of families, and connections
between women's literacy and public policy.
The list moderator is Daphne Greenberg, Associate Director of the
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy (CSAL) at Georgia State University
in Atlanta, Georgia.
To subscribe goto: http://novel.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/nifl-womenlit/women_literacy.html
