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Women and the Work of Community

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  • Lynn A Staeheli

    (Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0487, USA)

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The term ‘community’ is an integral part of the discourse regarding social-service and human-service delivery in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Yet, there are a host of meanings and goals that are part of the project of community; these meanings reflect the ambiguous position of community with respect to ideas of publicity and privacy. In this paper I explore some of those meanings and goals through the use of interviews with women who work in nonprofit, community-based organizations that support human and social services. The focus is on the ways in which the women frame the concept of community and the ways in which these may be part of a strategy to create political and material spaces for caring, empowerment, and justice.

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  • Lynn A Staeheli, 2003. "Women and the Work of Community," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 35(5), pages 815-831, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:35:y:2003:i:5:p:815-831
    DOI: 10.1068/a35134
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    1. Skocpol, Theda & Abend-Wein, Marjorie & Howard, Christopher & Lehmann, Susan Goodrich, 1993. "Women's Associations and the Enactment of Mothers' Pensions in the United States," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 87(3), pages 686-701, September.
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    1. Nancy Ettlinger, 2009. "Surmounting City Silences: Knowledge Creation and the Design of Urban Democracy in the Everyday Economy," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(1), pages 217-230, March.

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