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Mexican American Women Activists (Paperback, New)
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Mexican American Women Activists (Paperback, New)
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When we see children playing in a supervised playground or hear
about a school being renovated, we seldom wonder about who
mobilized the community resources to rebuild the school or staff
the park. Mexican American Women Activists tells the stories of
Mexican American women from two Los Angeles neighborhoods and how
they transformed the everyday problems they confronted into
political concerns. By placing these women's experiences at the
center of her discussion of grassroots political activism, Mary
Pardo illuminates the gender, race, and class character of
community networking. She shows how citizens help to shape their
local environment by creating resources for churches, schools, and
community services and generates new questions and answers about
collective action and the transformation of social networks into
political networks. By focusing on women in two contiguous but very
different communities -- the working-class, inner-city neighborhood
of Boyle Heights in Eastside Los Angeles and the racially mixed
middle-class suburb of Monterey Park -- Pardo is able to bring
class as ell as gender and ethnic concerns to bear on her analysis
in ways that shed light on the complexity of mobilizing for urban
change. Unlike many studies, the stories told here focus on women's
strengths rather than on their problems. We follow the process by
which these women empowered themselves by using their own
definitions of social justice and their own convictions about the
importance of traditional roles. Rather than becoming political
participants in spite of their family responsibilities, women in
both neighborhoods seem to have been more powerful because they had
responsibilities, social networks, and daily routines separate from
the men in their communities. Pardo asserts that the decline of
real wages and the growing income gap means that unforunately most
women will no longer be able to focus their energies on unpaid
community work. She reflects on the consequences of this change for
women's political involvement, as well as on the politics of
writing about women and politics.
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