Community Activism and Feminist Politics

by Naples,Nancy; Naples,Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780415916295
• ISBN10: 0415916291
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection on women's community activism demonstrates the diversity of women's struggles against violence, homophobia and racism, and for housing, civil rights, economic security, educational equity and environmental justice. It focuses on the complex ways that gender, race-ethnicity, culture, class and sexuality shape women's political consciousness and organizing in the US. Offering an interdisciplinary perspective, the collection includes case studies of activism among lesbians, Hmong women, white European American women, Korean American and African American women, as well as Latinas and Native Americans. Contributors: Sharon Bays, Maylei Blackwell, Sharon Cotrell, Roberta M. Feldman, Sherna Berger Gluck, Karen harper, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Carolyn Howe, Karen Kendrick, Celene Krauss, Nancy A. Naples, Mary Pardo, Lisa Sun-Hee Park, Leila Rupp, Virginia Rinaldo Seitz, Susan Stall, Susan Parkison Stern, Verta Taylor, Judith Wittner and Patricia A. Wright.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction
Nancy A. Naples
Women's Community Activism and Feminist Activist Research	1	(30)
Part I Challenging Categories and Frameworks
Whose Feminism, Whose History? Reflections on Excavating the History of (the) US Women's Movement(s)	31	(26)
Sherna Berger Gluck with
Maylei Blackwell
Sharon Cotrell
Karen S. harper
Women's Culture and Lesbian Feminist Activism A Reconsideration of Cultural Feminism	57	(24)
Verta Taylor
Leila J. Rupp
Reconceptualizing Agency in Domestic Violence Court	81	(26)
Judith Wittner
Part II Transforming Politics
Conversation, Research, and Struggles over Schooling in an African American Community	107	(22)
Susan Parkison Stern
Challenging Power Toxic Waste Protests and the Politicization of White, Working-Class Women	129	(22)
Celene Krauss
Producing the Battered Woman Shelter Politics and the Power of the Feminist Voice	151	(24)
Karen Kendrick
Navigating the Anti-Immigrant Wave The Korean Women's Hotline and the Politics of Community	175	(24)
Lisa Sun-Hee Park
Part III Networking for Change
Latina Immigrant Women and Paid Domestic Work Upgrading the Occupation	199	(14)
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Class, Gender, and Resistance in the Appalachian Coalfields	213	(24)
Virgina Rinaldo Seitz
Gender, Race, and Community Activism Competing Strategies in the Struggle for Public Education	237	(20)
Carolyn Howe
Part IV Constructing Community
``The Community Needs to be Built by Us'' Women Organizing in Chicago Public Housing	257	(18)
Roberta M. Feldman
Susan Stall
Patricia A. Wright
Creating Community Mexican American Women in Eastside Los Angeles	275	(26)
Mary Pardo
Work, Politics, and Coalition Building Hmong Women's Activism in a Central California Town	301	(26)
Sharon Bays
Women's Community Activism Exploring the Dynamics of Politicization and Diversity	327	(24)
Nancy A. Naples
References	351	(38)
Permissions	389	(2)
Contributors	391	(4)
Index	395