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Gender & Society, Vol. 5, No. 4, 478-494 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/089124391005004003

"JUST WHAT NEEDED TO BE DONE":

The Political Practice of Women Community Workers in Low-Income Neighborhoods

NANCY A. NAPLES

Iowa State University

This article offers a reconceptualization of "the political" from the standpoint of women working in and for low-income neighborhoods, with special emphasis on the contradictions between their actions as community workers and their understandings of the political aspects of their work. The author also examines how their gender and race identity influenced their political consciousness and practice. The date are drawn from in-depth interviews with forty-two perdominantly African American and Puerto Rican women from New York City and Philadelphia who were hired in community action programs established by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.


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