Women and community action - Campling Jo (Rawat Publications New Delhi, 2007)
Keywords: Women in community development -- Women in community organization -- Women social workers -- Social policy -- Feminism -- Constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing communities : reconceptualizing communities, models of community work, emerging forms of community work, politics of community work -- Gender communities : Gender social relations, feminist challenges to traditional community work, gendering key concepts in community work -- State, social policy and communities : Community work and British state, significant community initiatives, community work, corporate management and restructuring hierarchical institutions, cxommunity action within a social service setting- patch system, power sharing in hierarchical institutions -- Feminist challenges to community work : Women as knowledge beings, domestic work as women's unvalued contribution to community well being, women in waged work, women's contributions to community life, fracturing women's movement, firing public imagination, building a picture of a community- community profile, compiling a community profile -- Feminist campaign and networks : Changing the world for women, men and children, characteristics of feminist campaign and networks, collective organization, identifying which problem feminists should address, women getting in touch with other women by organizing, campaigning aids, techniques and tips, new information technologies -- Feminist action on individual level : Feminist approaches to emotional well being of women, advocacy- basis for individual and collective action, feminist social action on health issues- women in community challenges health professionals, challenging medical expertise -- Feminist action in workplace : Unpaid domestic work and low paid waged workers, making connections between domestic work and wages labour/labor, women workers and women clients, caring for old people- work undertaken in home, organizing around age, we are all in together- women against pit closures, feminist prefigurative forms -- Feminist political action : Feminist and municipal socialism, an autonomous feminist political organization in Iceland, feminist political action outside electoral politics, contribution of greenham common women to feminist political action, impact of Greenham women's peace movement on traditional community action, ecofeminism and redefining economic and environmental issues -- Changing communities and women's roles within them, organizing women in community, feminist community action and future -- women & society