A feminist reading of four prominent literacy narratives—Mike Rose’s Lives on the Boundary, Richard Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory, Victor Villanueva’s Bootstraps, and Keith Gilyard’s Voices of the Self—shows that conflicts and anxieties about the consequences of schooling on working-class masculinity animate these texts. Each of these writers experiences, manages, and ultimately resolves, to greater or lesser degrees, his conflicts over masculinity, at least textually speaking, and does so, moreover, in ways that are linked to his views on literacy and education.

Review Article| April 01 2006 Poverty-Class Women Speak Out About Education Christie Launius Christie Launius Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Pedagogy (2006) 6 (2): 375–383. https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-2005-011 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Christie Launius; Poverty-Class Women Speak Out About Education. Pedagogy 1 April 2006; 6 (2): 375–383. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-2005-011 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsPedagogy Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Duke University Press2006 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.