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WORKING-CLASS WOMEN AND CIVIC ACTION: A CASE STUDY OF AN INNOVATIVE COMMUNITY ROLE.
- Source :
- Policy Studies Journal; Mar83, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p427-435, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 1983
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Abstract
- This paper focuses on working-class women who are assuming public responsibility in voluntary organizations aimed at the maintenance and improvement of their city neighborhoods. Forty women were interviewed in-depth regarding their civic concerns and voluntary activities in a case study of Carondelet, a predominantly white working-class neighborhood of Saint Louis. Overall, activism is well-organized and widespread with women playing a major contributing role. If the experience of Carondelet is typical, then future urban policy analysis must seriously take into account extensive female input at the grass-roots level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0190292X
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Policy Studies Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 11777863
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.1983.tb00661.x