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Women in Community Work
Related to: Community Work Manual
Description: "When we refer to Community Workers we include people working in their communities in a paid and unpaid capacity.We the group of nine women who got together to write this manual are a mixed group. Some of us are Black and some are white. We range in age from our twenties to our fifties. Some of us are lesbian and some of us are hetrosexual. We live in London, the North East of England and all
points in between. The work is built from our individual perspectives and our personal work experiences.
We are explicit that we each have a feminist perspective and recognise that other women may use another language, other words to describe something similar.
For example, some of us prefer to use the term 'Womanism'. This is because historically, feminism did not acknowledge or credit the role of Black women in the movement towards change and equality.
Womanism is a term that some of us feel we can take ownership of because it is non-eurocentric and non-western in its application and it is therefore more accessible to us.
Womanism is not in competition with Feminism, it is about self definition and recognising the strengths of different women in the movement towards greater equality."
Free download in PDF format - 48 pages
Help with PDF fileshttp://www.community-work-training.org.uk/