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Direct linkAhearn, Laura M. – Language and Education, 2004
In this paper, a case study of women's incipient literacy in Junigau, Nepal, I argue that literacy can be both a catalyst for social change and a result of numerous other types of social transformation. The increase in female literacy rates in Junigau in the 1990s made possible the emergence of new courtship practices involving love letters and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Letters (Correspondence), Womens Education
