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Inquiring Communally, Acting Collectively: The Community Literacy of the Academy-Women eMentor Portal and Facebook Group
- Community Literacy Journal
- Community Literacy Journal
- Volume 6, Issue 1, Fall 2011-2012
- pp. 79-90
- 10.1353/clj.2012.0003
- Article
- Additional Information
Women who work in highly male-dominated fields such as science and the military often find it difficult to establish a place for themselves within their workplace communities. In this essay, I examine how two related online communities for military women enable participants to overcome their workplace isolation, form a collective consciousness, find positive mentorship, and develop a community literacy that affords them a voice through which to enact both personal and public change.