Anna Robinson-Pant is a Lecturer at the Centre for Applied Research in Education at the University of East Anglia. As a development planner, teacher trainer and researcher with various international aid agencies, she has spent much of her working life in South Asia. Her publications include Why Eat Green Cucumber at the Time of Dying? (2001), an ethnographic study of women's literacy programmes in Nepal which won the UNESCO International Award for Literacy Research.

• Part 1: Questioning Women's Literacy: New Research Approaches 1. The Illiterate Woman: Changing Approaches to Researching Women's Literacy 2. Distorted Mirrors: (de)centring of the 'illiterate Indian Village Woman' Through Ethnographic Research Narratives 3. Implications of the New Literacy Studies for Researching Women's Literacy Programmes 4. Creating the Gender Text: Literacy and Discourse in Rural El Salvador 5. Qualitative Methods in Researching Women's Literacy: A Case Study 6. A Self-Reflexive Analysis of Power and Positionality: Toward a Feminist Praxis Part 2: Identifying the Issues: A Gendered Perspective on Literary Policy and Programming 7. Functional Literacy, Gender and Identities: Policy and Practice 8. Women are Lions in Dresses: Negotiating Gender Relations in REFLECT Learning Circles in Lesotho 9. Closing the gap: Issues in Gender Integrated Training of Adult Literacy Facilitators: Possibilities, Progress and Resistance 10. Women, Literacy, Development and Gender: A Telling Case Involving a HIV Positive Woman Part 3: Learning from Experience 11. I Will Stay Here Until I Die: A Critical Analysis of the Muthande Literacy Programme 12. We Were Nowhere We Were Not (present) on Any Maps Literacy Brought us to the Forefront: Literacy and Empowering Processes for Dalit Community Women in a Mumbai Slum 13. Functional Participation? Questioning Participatory Attempts at Reshaping

Anna Robinson-Pant is a Lecturer at the Centre for Applied Research in Education at the University of East Anglia. As a development planner, teacher trainer and researcher with various international aid agencies, she has spent much of her working life in South Asia. Her publications include Why Eat Green Cucumber at the Time of Dying? (2001), an ethnographic study of women's literacy programmes in Nepal which won the UNESCO International Award for Literacy Research.

• Part 1: Questioning Women's Literacy: New Research Approaches 1. The Illiterate Woman: Changing Approaches to Researching Women's Literacy 2. Distorted Mirrors: (de)centring of the 'illiterate Indian Village Woman' Through Ethnographic Research Narratives 3. Implications of the New Literacy Studies for Researching Women's Literacy Programmes 4. Creating the Gender Text: Literacy and Discourse in Rural El Salvador 5. Qualitative Methods in Researching Women's Literacy: A Case Study 6. A Self-Reflexive Analysis of Power and Positionality: Toward a Feminist Praxis Part 2: Identifying the Issues: A Gendered Perspective on Literary Policy and Programming 7. Functional Literacy, Gender and Identities: Policy and Practice 8. Women are Lions in Dresses: Negotiating Gender Relations in REFLECT Learning Circles in Lesotho 9. Closing the gap: Issues in Gender Integrated Training of Adult Literacy Facilitators: Possibilities, Progress and Resistance 10. Women, Literacy, Development and Gender: A Telling Case Involving a HIV Positive Woman Part 3: Learning from Experience 11. I Will Stay Here Until I Die: A Critical Analysis of the Muthande Literacy Programme 12. We Were Nowhere We Were Not (present) on Any Maps Literacy Brought us to the Forefront: Literacy and Empowering Processes for Dalit Community Women in a Mumbai Slum 13. Functional Participation? Questioning Participatory Attempts at Reshaping