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Women and Community Action : Local and Global Perspectives
This third edition looks at how several decades of feminist social action have changed women's place in the world today and updates some of the perennial challenges facing women globally to engage with new issues, including digital exclusion, sustainable development and environmental justice.
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedicaton; Contents; List of boxes and figures; Acknowledgements; Preface: actioning our futures from our pasts; One: Introduction: community, an undervalued women's space; Introduction; Communities as complex entities; Conceptual framework; (Re)conceptualising communities; Mainstream models of community work; Emerging forms of community work; The book's structure; Two: Creating and recreating communities as gendered entities; Introduction; Gendered social relations; Feminist challenges to traditional community work; Gendering key concepts in community work
- ConclusionThree: Women and social action: social change at the individual level; Introduction; Feminist approaches to women's emotional well-being; Advocacy: a basis for individual and collective action; Feminist community-based social action on health issues: women challenge health professionals; Consciousness-raising groups; Conclusion; Four: Women and social action: social change through group activities and networks; Introduction; Changing the world for women, men and children by beginning with women; Challenging medical expertise
- Characteristics of feminist groups, networks and campaignsCollective organisation; Identifying which problems feminists address; Women organising across diverse boundaries; Organising aids, techniques and tips; Conclusion; Five: Social change through collective action: campaigns and mass mobilisations; Introduction; Feminist campaigns and social action; Childcare campaigns; #MeToo campaign against sexual harassment in the workplace; Greenham Common: women's contributions to feminist campaigns involving political action on peace
- The impact of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Movement on traditional community actionMaking allies; Conclusion; Six: Feminist action in the workplace; Introduction; Waged work and domestic labour are interlinked; Women's lot: unpaid domestic work and low-paid waged labour; Women's unequal engagement in the workplace; Feminist workplace initiatives; Childcare campaigns connect domestic work and waged labour; Eldercare: work undertaken in the home; Recognition of caring work: organising around old age is a workplace issue
- Older women's organisations impact both the workplace and wider societyWomen workers and women service users: shared interests; 'We're all in it together'
- women against pit closures; Feminist prefigurative forms; Contemporary struggles for equal pay; Conclusion; Seven: Increasing women's positions in parliament, governance and decision-making structures; Introduction; Feminist political action nationally in the UK; Feminists target the political realm; Feminist social action in British public relational space; Feminism and British municipal socialism