Community activism and feminist politics : organizing across race, class, and gender /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
1998.
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| Series: | Perspectives on gender
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Whose feminism, whose history? : reflections on excavating the history of (the) US women's movement(s) / Sherna Berger Gluck, Maylei Blackwell, Sharon Cotrell and Karen S. Harper
- 2. Women's culture and lesbian feminist activism : a reconsideration of cultural feminism / Verta Taylor and Leila J. Rupp
- 3. Reconceptualizing agency in domestic violence court / Judith Wittner
- 4. Conversation, research, and struggles over schooling in an African American community / Susan Parkison Stern
- 5. Challenging power : toxic waste protests and the politicization of white, working-class women / Celene Krauss
- 6. Producing the battered woman : shelter politics and the power of the feminist voice / Karen Kendrick
- 7. Navigating the anti-immigrant wave : the Korean Women's Hotline and the politics of community / Lisa Sun-Hee Park
- 8. Latina immigrant women and paid domestic work : upgrading the occupation / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
- 9. Class, gender, and resistance in the Appalachian coalfields / Virginia Rinaldo Seitz
- 10. Gender, race, and community activism : competing strategies in the struggle for public education / Carolyn Howe
- 11. "The community needs to be built by us" : women organizing in Chicago public housing / Roberta M. Feldman, Susan Stall, and Patricia A. Wright
- 12. Creating community : Mexican American women in eastside Los Angeles / Mary Pardo
- 13. Work, politics, and coalition building : Hmong women's activism in a Central California town / Sharon Bays
- 14. Women's community activism : exploring the dynamics of politicization and diversity / Nancy A. Naples.