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 h8UJgWV15167; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:42:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:42:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <p05100301bb9f8ba702f3@[68.135.113.25]> 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: Gail Spangenberg <gspangenberg@caalusa.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2720] RE: Adult literacy and domestic violence X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 2846 Lines: 68 Andrea, And let me add my voice to what Catherine says. Your courage and strength are to be deeply admired, and the understanding that your experience brings to program design issues for women has to be extraordinarily valuable. Here's to you! And to all girls, and for that matter boys, who have been violated. Gail >Andrea, You deserve the highest level of respect and admiration for having >the integrity to tell us what we must know and understand. >Catherine > >-----Original Message----- >From: nifl-womenlit@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-womenlit@nifl.gov]On Behalf Of >AWilder106@aol.com >Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:30 PM >To: Multiple recipients of list >Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2718] RE: Adult literacy and domestic violence, > > >Daphne, > >I feel I must make a comment here. I live in the Boston area and have been >interested and somewhat involved in work around teaching and violence >towards women. 2 years ago I went to a workshop with teachers and >administrators, mostly women, who worked in this field. At one point we had >an exercise in going around a table and talking about our associations with >the topic, and I mentioned my personal experience with incest. I could >feel the other 3 women at my table draw back from me, emotionally; there was >quite a silence. Then one of them said now she saw me as two people, one an >ordinary person, the other with a different face. (Whose face, I should >have asked.) This was a professional group, adult educators. Obviously I >am bringing this up as a consciousness-raising topic, the incident was grim >and I don't like to write about it, BUT I think there may need to be some >educating out there of those who work in this field. > >Sexual violence is not a social science "add-on" to a core personality, it >changes the person's whole being, biochemical to social to spiritual. I >have known 2 people, 2 friends, who have not raised that wall of >incomprehension and fear when I brought up the topic, they have my >blesssing for eternity. > >I don't talk about my experience in "normal" company, this list is the only >place I have every gone very public, but for the sake of other women I >had to say this about educating teachers and administrators, it has to be >done. > >I follow news about sexual vioolence quite closely in the newspaper, I am >thinking here about the Air Force Academy. > >1) No one thought to train those young women AHEAD of time so they would be >prepared for what they might encounter. >2) In war,rape is a war crime. > >In civilian life, it is also a crime, and women should know how to deal >with it as this level. > >Andrea -- Gail Spangenberg President Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy 1221 Avenue of the Americas - 50th Floor New York, NY 10020 212-512-2362, fax 212-512-2610 www.caalusa.org
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