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Peer reviewedPowell, Mary Clare – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1994
A creative writing program for disadvantaged women in Chicopee, Massachusetts, is described. The program's effects in empowering the women resulted in the women making a number of specific changes in their lives. Reasons for the workshop's success are discussed, as is the power of the arts to effect social change. (DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Creative Writing, Disadvantaged Environment, Empowerment
