This collection demonstrates the diversity of women's struggles against problems such as racism, violence, homophobia, focusing on the complex ways that gender, culture, race-ethnicity and class shape women's political consciousness in the US.
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Community Activism and Feminist Politics is a fascinating and impressive collection of scholarship on women's efforts to secure some measure of social and economic justice....a compelling blend of theory and practice through a feminist lens....This book is a testament to the hard fought struggles for justice by everyday women.
–Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
Community Activism and Feminist Politics is proof that progressive, exciting, rigorous feminist social science is alive and well, as are the continuing and often successful everyday efforts of women to better their communities. This book offers researchers, students, and activists rich, textured analyses of case studies drawn from diverse examples of community-based activism in the US over the last several decades. Naples promises and delivers a collection that bridges feminist and social movement theory with the very real and complex challenges facing activists struggling for social justice and economic security. For those many of us deeply troubled by growing racial and class polarization, continuing gender inequality, and a politics that has moved steadily rightward, the vision and examples of progressive, activist research in this book are analytically astute and a wellspring of inspiration.
–Sandra Morgen, Center for the Study of Women in Society and Sociology, Oregon University
[Community Activism is an] an enormously valuable contribution to the project of understanding women's political work.
–SIGNS Winter 2001
–Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
Community Activism and Feminist Politics is proof that progressive, exciting, rigorous feminist social science is alive and well, as are the continuing and often successful everyday efforts of women to better their communities. This book offers researchers, students, and activists rich, textured analyses of case studies drawn from diverse examples of community-based activism in the US over the last several decades. Naples promises and delivers a collection that bridges feminist and social movement theory with the very real and complex challenges facing activists struggling for social justice and economic security. For those many of us deeply troubled by growing racial and class polarization, continuing gender inequality, and a politics that has moved steadily rightward, the vision and examples of progressive, activist research in this book are analytically astute and a wellspring of inspiration.
–Sandra Morgen, Center for the Study of Women in Society and Sociology, Oregon University
[Community Activism is an] an enormously valuable contribution to the project of understanding women's political work.
–SIGNS Winter 2001
About the Author
Nancy A. Naples is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
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The parentheses in the title this chapter are less a sign my infatuation with postmodernist gimmickry than of my own continuing ambivalence about how to "do" the history of feminist activism in the U.S.-what is still conventionally referred to as "the second wave." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
override campaign, domestic violence discourse, women community activists, battered immigrant women, toxic waste protests, undocumented immigrant women, shelter activists, toxic waste issues, domestic violence court, lesbian feminist culture, lesbian feminist communities, white women activists, lesbian feminist community, paid domestic work, resident activists, activist scholarship, multiracial feminism, override effort, domestic violence movement, activist research, court workers, multicultural alliances, cultural feminism, community activism, oppositional consciousness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, Los Angeles, Asian American, Tulare County, United States, Westside Magnet, Korean American, Wentworth Gardens, South County, Mexican American, American Indian, Family Auxiliary, Puerto Rican, White Sox, Women's Action Collective, New Beginnings, New York City, Haven House, Refugee Health, South Armour, Cognitive Abilities Test, Love Canal, Daughters of Mother Jones, Don Porter, Women Against Rape New!
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The parentheses in the title this chapter are less a sign my infatuation with postmodernist gimmickry than of my own continuing ambivalence about how to "do" the history of feminist activism in the U.S.-what is still conventionally referred to as "the second wave." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
override campaign, domestic violence discourse, women community activists, battered immigrant women, toxic waste protests, undocumented immigrant women, shelter activists, toxic waste issues, domestic violence court, lesbian feminist culture, lesbian feminist communities, white women activists, lesbian feminist community, paid domestic work, resident activists, activist scholarship, multiracial feminism, override effort, domestic violence movement, activist research, court workers, multicultural alliances, cultural feminism, community activism, oppositional consciousness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, Los Angeles, Asian American, Tulare County, United States, Westside Magnet, Korean American, Wentworth Gardens, South County, Mexican American, American Indian, Family Auxiliary, Puerto Rican, White Sox, Women's Action Collective, New Beginnings, New York City, Haven House, Refugee Health, South Armour, Cognitive Abilities Test, Love Canal, Daughters of Mother Jones, Don Porter, Women Against Rape New!
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- Beyond Methodology: Feminist Scholarship as Lived Research (A Midland Book) by Mary Margaret Fonow in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Revised 10th Anniv 2nd Edition) by Patricia Hill Collins in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Feminist Revolution by Redstockings in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Mothering: Ideology, Experience, and Agency (Perspectives on Gender) by Evelyn Nakano Glenn in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Feminist Studies / Critical Studies (Theories of Contemporary Culture) by Teresa de Lauretis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS by Michele Tracy Berger on 6 pages
- Domestic Violence and the Politics of Privacy by Kristin A. Kelly on 5 pages
- Teaching Feminist Activism: Strategies from the Field by Nancy A. Naples on 5 pages
- An Interracial Movement of the Poor by Jennifer Frost on 5 pages
- Teaching Feminist Activism: Strategies from the Field by Nancy A. Naples on 5 pages
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