Community Activism and Feminist Politics: Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender (Perspectives on Gender) - Softcover

Naples, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415916305 ISBN 13: 9780415916301

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Nancy A. Naples is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Review:

""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

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415916305
• ISBN 13: 9780415916301
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424