Equal Opportunities International: Volume 19 Issue 2/3/4
Table of contents
Women, literacy and power. An introduction
Patricia DanielIntroduces literacy as the key to women having equal participation in development and decision making processes. Discusses the ways literacy is linked to power and goes on to…
Femanomics, women literacy and economics in Sub Saharan Africa
Benedicta EgboExamines some of the economic implications of persistently excluding women in Sub‐Saharan Africa from access to literacy, arguing that women can not fulfil their full potential…
Mujer! Women, the Nicaraguan literacy crusade and beyond
Patricia DanielHighlights the importance of education and training for women as an integral part of local and national development. Using Nicaragua as a leading example, outlining the recent…
Whose past? Whose future? An exploration of women’s history in Wales
Martin WrightExamines a study of women’s history in modern Wales. Considers the way in which historians have approached (or failed to approach) the subject before evaluating a current attempt…
We are no longer silent. Participatory research with hospital cleaners in Sweden
Gunilla HärnstenPresents the findings of a study of female hospital cleaners in Sweden. Uses participatory research i.e. discussion and analysis of issues in groups to show how potential is often…
Realising what I truly am. Mature women into higher education
Helen PetersProfiles the experiences of a group of mature women entering higher education for the first time in the UK. Considers the reason for motivation and the practical issues with which…
Gender and the creation, structuring and interpretation of knowledge
Barbara WoodInvestigates the interpretation and the body of literature surrounding the British prehistory era defined as 500 000 BC to 43 AD. Looks at how and by whom the past has been…
The inescapable images: gender and advertising
Iris MayneDefines advertising and looks at the way it is part of the whole home environment. Considers the influence and power various media possess with particular emphasis on women…
Reading between the lines. Gender and politics in Greek reading schemes
Kiki Deliyanni‐KouimtzisAttempts to show the results of an example of an educational policy on gender equality in a very specific aspect of the Greek educational process. Briefly covers the historical…
Mother’s dilemma. Limits of love. Limits of pain
Katarzyna Turaj KalinskExplores the relationship between motherhood and creativity. Looks at what the writer’s daughter has taught the writer about art. States that she has been influenced in three…
Present voices, past and future lives: autobiography and older women
Anna‐Marie TaylorExplores the way that men and women through autobiography have charted the private self. Shows the depiction of life as a voyage or journey to self‐perception. Looks at the value…
I‐opener: feminine enunciation in Marguerite Duras
Catherine RodgersDiscusses the difficulties women experience in speaking and writing as women. Outlines feminine problems of using the word “I”. Looks at the writing of Marguerite Duras and charts…
Lady writes the blues. Call and response in the poetry of Afro‐American women
Kathy HopewellAsks on whose behalf the black woman poet in the USA speaks, what type of language she uses and what audience she has. Points out that an earlier lack of tradition meant that…