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The book's major contribution is in providing the empirical material to suggest an alternative model of citizenship. Rather than identifying the model citizen as the voter, the community volunteer, or the aspiring politician, citizenship here is depicted as crossing the boundaries between paid and unpaid work, engaging with the caretaking work of the local community, and challenging the strictures of a deeply hierarchical society in all domains of life..
–Mobilization, Fall 2001One hopes this book will serve as a lesson for a renewed war on poverty. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
–Choice, Feb 1999Grassroots Warriors, provides a welcome counterpoint to the harsh judgments of those who disparage poor women for lacking work and family ethics and illustrates instead how the community action programs provided women opportunities to develop skills that enhanced their abilities to contribute to their communities. Nancy Naples provides a theoretically insightful analysis of the progressive possibilities of anti-poverty policy.
–Jill Quadagno, Florida State University
–Mobilization, Fall 2001One hopes this book will serve as a lesson for a renewed war on poverty. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
–Choice, Feb 1999Grassroots Warriors, provides a welcome counterpoint to the harsh judgments of those who disparage poor women for lacking work and family ethics and illustrates instead how the community action programs provided women opportunities to develop skills that enhanced their abilities to contribute to their communities. Nancy Naples provides a theoretically insightful analysis of the progressive possibilities of anti-poverty policy.
–Jill Quadagno, Florida State University
This volume explores the connections among motherhood, work, politics, and community in low-income urban environments. The author interviewed more than sixty women - African, American, Latina American, and white - who have fought for social justice and economic survival in low-income neighbourhoods in New York City and Philadelphia. Many of the women profiled have been/are single mothers, receiving welfare, and living in supposedly blighted urban areas.
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