Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g0MLTPn15618; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:29:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:29:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <sc4d925c.010@langate.gsu.edu> 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: "Daphne Greenberg" <ALCDGG@langate.gsu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:1891] Rape and literacy X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_7D2001BC.CBAAC301" X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.6.1 Status: O Content-Length: 4073 Lines: 107 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Although, at first glance, this "may not have much to do with literacy" (as you noted in the last part of your post), I think that it does if we define literacy in a broader sense of the word. Here are the connections for me: 1. Rape may be a topic in a newspaper article or book that our learners are reading. 2. Learners may write about rape in their writings. 3. Rape may come up as part of a class discussion. Therefore, I think the discussion of labels is very apropos! Daphne Daphne Greenberg Associate Director Center for the Study of Adult Literacy Georgia State University University Plaza Atlanta, GA 30303-3083 phone: 404-651-0127 fax:404-651-4901 dgreenberg@gsu.edu >>> JPSscribe@aol.com 01/21/02 04:50PM >>> When I was working at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, we had to put together a curriculum on date rape. Whenever we had to refer to women who had been raped as a group, that's what we called them--women who have been raped. (As in "Women who have been raped often find themselves being stereotyped by well-meaning people.") On second reference, we just said something like "these women." We felt like anything else was sort of patronizing. After all, they are women above all else. The fact that they have been raped should not become the central part of their identity, so in my opinion there is no need to torture ourselves about what kind of label to pin on them. They are simply women. This doesn't really have much to do with literacy, but I felt the need to address it since it was already on the table.
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