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Direct linkBirden, Susan – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2004
Concurring with Cunningham's assessment of the need for a counter-hegemonic vision of critical pedagogy in adult education thought and practice, this article theorizes a coalition-engendered education as a specific type of emancipatory pedagogy common in North America. Examining the Boston Women's Health Book Collective's body education as an…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Females, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Download full textBirden, Susan – 2002
The experiences of the 12-woman Boston Women's Health Book Collective was examined in a case study that focused on the collective's activities from its formation in 1969 through its publication of the book "Our Bodies, Ourselves" in 1973 and its opening of a women's clinic in downtown Boston that is still in operation today. The case…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Case Studies
