LOW-INCOME WOMEN AND COMMUNITY POWER

This article presents the community activism of working-class and poor women and offers a reconceptualization of community power in general and women's empowerment in particular. This analysis is done by examin ing women's involvement in a community coalition in northern Brooklyn and was carried out through the use of interviews, participant observa tion, and content analysis. Findings indicate that women were empowere d by their participation in the coalition and developed a critical con sciousness regarding politics, race relations, and feminism.