This volume explores the connections among motherhood, work, politics, and community in low-income urban environments. The author interviewed more than sixty women - African, American, Latina American, and white - who have fought for social justice and economic survival in low-income neighbourhoods in New York City and Philadelphia. Many of the women profiled have been/are single mothers, receiving welfare, and living in supposedly blighted urban areas.
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The book's major contribution is in providing the empirical material to suggest an alternative model of citizenship. Rather than identifying the model citizen as the voter, the community volunteer, or the aspiring politician, citizenship here is depicted as crossing the boundaries between paid and unpaid work, engaging with the caretaking work of the local community, and challenging the strictures of a deeply hierarchical society in all domains of life..
–Mobilization, Fall 2001
One hopes this book will serve as a lesson for a renewed war on poverty. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
–Choice, Feb 1999
Grassroots Warriors, provides a welcome counterpoint to the harsh judgments of those who disparage poor women for lacking work and family ethics and illustrates instead how the community action programs provided women opportunities to develop skills that enhanced their abilities to contribute to their communities. Nancy Naples provides a theoretically insightful analysis of the progressive possibilities of anti-poverty policy.
–Jill Quadagno, Florida State University
–Mobilization, Fall 2001
One hopes this book will serve as a lesson for a renewed war on poverty. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
–Choice, Feb 1999
Grassroots Warriors, provides a welcome counterpoint to the harsh judgments of those who disparage poor women for lacking work and family ethics and illustrates instead how the community action programs provided women opportunities to develop skills that enhanced their abilities to contribute to their communities. Nancy Naples provides a theoretically insightful analysis of the progressive possibilities of anti-poverty policy.
–Jill Quadagno, Florida State University
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This book presents the only longitudinal study of women community workers hired in Community Action Programs (CAPs) during the War on Poverty. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonresident community workers, women community workers, community action programs, political analyses, antipoverty programs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, New York City, Puerto Rican, New Careers, Lower East Side, Sister Margaret, South Bronx, Board of Education, East Harlem, Civil Rights Movement, Ann Robinson, Economic Opportunity Act, United States, Angela Garcia, Maria Calero, Teresa Fraser, Carlotta Mendez, Catholic Church, Sabrina Brock, Sandra Cole, Brenda Rivers, Communist Party, European American, Francine Evans, Josephine Card New!
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This book presents the only longitudinal study of women community workers hired in Community Action Programs (CAPs) during the War on Poverty. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonresident community workers, women community workers, community action programs, political analyses, antipoverty programs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, New York City, Puerto Rican, New Careers, Lower East Side, Sister Margaret, South Bronx, Board of Education, East Harlem, Civil Rights Movement, Ann Robinson, Economic Opportunity Act, United States, Angela Garcia, Maria Calero, Teresa Fraser, Carlotta Mendez, Catholic Church, Sabrina Brock, Sandra Cole, Brenda Rivers, Communist Party, European American, Francine Evans, Josephine Card New!
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- 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
- Women Politics And Empowerment (Women In The Political Economy) by Ann Bookman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Whose Welfare? by Gwendolyn Mink on 7 pages
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- Teaching Feminist Activism: Strategies from the Field by Nancy A. Naples in Front Matter, page 65, and Back Matter
- Different Wavelengths: Studies of the Contemporary Women's Movement by Jo Reger on page 232, page 233, and Back Matter
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