Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id IAA11447; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:44:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:44:40 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <ca.2814df9.25f660fe@aol.com> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:537] Re: Fossilization X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL for Macintosh sub 146 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: OR Jenny Horsman writes quite compellingly on this theme in her book "Too Scared to Learn." The women are Canadian; many women were discouraged from literacy by their families because they were "stupid" or because their main job would be to have babies. Husbands of low literate women (mostly ABE students) might increase beatings, verbal abuse when their partners went to school, or try to control their activities in school, by checking on homework, friends, activities. I am assuming Horsman's study has applicability here. Any knowledge of this? Andrea
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