Abstract
This chapter focuses on women’s health education as a key site of feminist popular education practice. It tells the story of the development of an online Women’s Health Information Network (referred to here as the “Network”), and explores the processes of engaging women in the creation of locally relevant and accessible health information. The story takes place in South Texas, United States, where women, particularly poor, Spanish-speaking women with low levels of literacy, were finding it difficult to navigate complex, disconnected silos of information about local health-care resources and services, and virtually impossible to locate meaningful health information.
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
—Hannah Arendt
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Hunt, L., Kaercher, D. (2012). Feminist Health Education on the Internet. In: Manicom, L., Walters, S. (eds) Feminist Popular Education in Transnational Debates. Comparative Feminist Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137014597_10
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