(Un)veiling desire: re-defining relationships between gendered adult education subjects and adult education programmes
This paper challenges constructions of the ‘gendered illiterate Indian villager’ as a homogenous group of people who are empowered through acquiring literacy. I strive to displace homogeneous representations of gendered ‘illiterate’ subjects through ethnographic accounts of diverse people’s realities in different villages in Bihar, India. I argue that the circumstance under which a relationship between gendered adult education subjects and adult education programmes gets constructed impinges on notions of: norms, interpreting and translating others, networks and empowerment within and outside ... Show more
Authors: Chopra, Priti
Published: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Elsevier, 2011
Resource type: Article
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