This collection demonstrates the diversity of women's struggles against problems such as racism, violence, homophobia, focusing on the complex ways that gender, culture, race-ethnicity and class shape women's political consciousness in the US.

Nancy A. Naples -- Introduction: Women's Community Activism and Feminist Activist ResearchPART I CHALLENGING CATEGORIES AND FRAMEWORKSChapter 1. Sherna Berger Gluck with Maylei Blackwell, Sharon Cotrell and Karen S. Harper -- Whose Feminism, Whose History? Reflections on Excavating the History of (the) US Women's Movement(s)Chapter 2. Verta Taylor and Leila J. Rupp -- Women's Culture and Lesbian Feminist Activism: A Reconsideration of Cultural FeminismChapter 3. Judith Wittner -- Reconceptualizing Agency in Domestic Violence CourtPART II TRANSFORMING POLITICSChapter 4. Susan Parkison Stern -- Conversation, Research, and Struggles over Schooling in an African American CommunityChapter 5. Celene Krauss -- Challenging Power: Toxic Waste Protests and the Politicization of White, Working-Class Women Chapter 6. Karen Kendrick -- Producing the Battered Woman: Shelter Politics and the Power of the Feminist Voice Chapter 7. Lisa Sun-Hee Park -- Navigating the Anti-Immigrant Wave: The Korean Women's Hotline and the Politics of Community PART III NETWORKING FOR CHANGE Chapter 8. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo -- Latina Immigrant Women and Paid Domestic Work: Upgrading the Occupation Chapter 9. Virginia Rinaldo Seitz -- Class, Gender, and Resistance in the Appalachian Coalfields Chapter 10. Carolyn Howe -- Gender, Race, and Community Activism: Competing Strategies in the Struggle for Public Education PART IV CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITY Chapter 11. Roberta M. Feldman, Susan Stall and Patrica A. Wright -- The Community Needs to be Built by Us: Women Organizing in Chicago Public Housing Chapter 12. Mary Pardo -- Creating Community: Mexican American Women in Eastside Los Angeles Chapter 13. Sharon Bays -- Work, Politics, and Coalition Building: Hmong Women's Activism in a Central California Town Chapter 14. Nancy A. Naples -- Women's Community Activism: Exploring the Dynamics of Politicization and Diversity