Community Activism and Feminist Politics

Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender

Author: Nancy A. Naples
ISBN: 0415916305

This collection on women's community activism demonstrates the diversity of women's struggles against problems such as violence, homophobia and racism, 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 USA. Offering an interdisciplinary perspective, the collection includes case studies of activism among lesbians, white European American women, Korean American and African American women, as well as Latinas and Native Americans.

Publisher: Psychology Press
Publish Date: 1998

Subjects: Political Science / General, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Activism)