Publications
Publication details [#39782]
Ahearn, Laura M. 2004. Literacy, Power, and Agency: Love Letters and Development in Nepal. Language & Education 18 (4) : 305–316. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study discusses how the new practice of female love letter writing in Junigau (Nepal), enabled through increased literacy rates in the 1990s, facilitated a shift away from arranged marriages and changed villagers' conception of their own agency.