Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Jul 2009 Open Access

Views of Girls, Views of Change: The Role of Theory in Helping Us Understand Gender Literacy and Gender Equity

Gwen Gorzelsky ; Frances J. Ranney ; Hilary Anne Ward

Abstract

This paper draws on two sources to theorize gender literacy. First, it examines several influential theories of social change embedded in community literacy scholarship. Next, it uses two of these theories to analyze qualitative data from an after-school program. In this program, university students mentored Latina middle-school students to promote both gender literacy and academic literacy. Based on this analysis, it argues that (1) only a collaborative, negotiated approach can promote effective social change, (2) that such efforts must include reflexive work by researchers to produce viable negotiations, and (3) that this approach highlights the intersection between pragmatic and ethical concerns that underlies effective social change.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2009-07-01
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10.59236/rjv8i3pp122-146
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collaborative writing literacy studies gender and writing community literacy
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