ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Melberg, Ellen, and Claudia Currie, eds.: Too Few to Count: Canadian Women in Conflict with the Law. Press Gang Publishers, Vancouver, B.C.: 1987.

A collection of articles by Canadian authors, documenting both qualitatively and quantitatively the experiences of women in conflict with the law. Presents a statistical and theoretical overview, and considers problems of Native women, young women, and front-line workers in coping with the Canadian women's prison system.

Ash, Sylvia, Helen King. Dorothy Robbins, Gladys Watson and WISE Participants: "Women Interested in Successful Employment: Perspectives on a Bridging Program". In Women's Education des Femmes.

Describes women's adult education initiative developed by C.C.L.O.W.-Newfoundland and the Association for Lifelong Learning. An innovative bridging program offering flexible learning, counselling, self-development, designed to assist women entering or re-entering the work force. Provides access to support services such as child care and transportation. Individualized approach to training, needs assessment, skill development, problem-solving and goal-setting. Incorporates learning modules, transferrable skills, computer-assisted learning, contract learning and small group learning, supplemented by support and advocacy.

Bunch, Charlotte, and Sandra Pollack, eds.: Learning Our Way: Essays in Feminist Education. The Crossing Press Feminist Series, Trumansburg, New York, 1983.

A collection of articles by American authors, examining feminist education and women's ways of learning. Analyses, personal accounts, and documentation of women's experiences of learning, as well as the challenges of teaching feminist thought in traditional institutions. Article by Andrea Loewenstein documents the experience of a woman teaching writing classes in a women's prison.

Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme: Women and Literacy. Fall/Winter 1988 (Volume 9, Numbers 3 and 4),

Includes articles on: the politics of literacy; immigrant women workers and literacy; Native women's literacy issues; literacy and disabled women: personal experiences of learners; pioneer women literacy workers; programs and services across Canada; women, literacy and development; literacy in Eritrea, Nicaragua and India.