Why Feminist Critical Literacy Matters: The Reorganisation of Capitalist Economies and the Significance of Socially Engaged Literature for Young Adults

Abstract

The latest capitalist restructuring has resulted in new conditions of employment, seriously affecting possibilities for people’s self-realization. Women have been hurt the most and face an increasing feminisation of poverty. This paper foregrounds the importance of literary socialisation in preparing young people to accept or reject neoliberal gendered scripts.

The Prerna Girls’ Education Initiative in India: Scaling Literacy to Reach for the Sky

“…We use disruptive texts to engage students in critical social literacy, which, as Yeoman () stated, not only help us understand how dominant discourses shape us but also give us a way to critically dissect these narratives, to reread them and replace them with an alternative view of our social reality. To this end, critical feminist pedagogy, among other strategies, uses alternative literary texts, which can help in rearticulating and retraditionalizing notions of femininity (Burcar, ).…”

“…Prerna Girls Playing Basketball LEADING LITERACY CHANGE them with an alternative view of our social reality. To this end, critical feminist pedagogy, among other strategies, uses alternative literary texts, which can help in rearticulating and retraditionalizing notions of femininity (Burcar, 2012).…”