Empowerment Through Welfare-Rights Organizing: A Feminist Perspective
- 1 May 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Affilia
- Vol. 15 (2) , 311-328
- https://doi.org/10.1177/088610990001500212
Abstract
This article describes a community-based welfare reform-welfare rights organizing coalition that is based on a feminist empowerment model of practice. The experiences of women who have participated in the coalition are highlighted, and suggested courses of action for organizing such coalitions are proposed.Keywords
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