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

• Authors: Lilijana Burcar
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

children’s literature; critical literacy; gender; neoliberal capitalism

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 205-217

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-08

Contributors

author

Lilijana Burcar

• University of Ljubljana, Kongresni trg 12, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10320-012-0040-7