Literacy and Mothering: How Women's Schooling Changes the Lives of the World's Children

by Sarah Levine, Beatrice Schnell-Anzola, Robert A. LeVine

Book Overview

Women's schooling is strongly related to child survival and other outcomes beneficial to children throughout the developing world, but the reasons behind these statistical connections have been unclear. In Literacy and Mothering, the authors show, for the first time, how communicative change plays a key role: Girls acquire academic literacy skills, even in low-quality schools, which enable them, as mothers, to understand public health messages in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190623314
• ISBN13: 9780190623319
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"