A history of women and feminist perspectives in community psychology

Using an historical framework, we document find assess efforts to include w omen, women's issues, and feminism in community psychology and in the Socie ty for Community Research and Action (SCRA). Initiatives of the SCR Task Fo rce/Committee on Women are traced from its inception to present. We also ch ronicle the dilemmas and difficulties of moving toward a feminist community psychology. The history is divided into Jive phases. Each phase is describ ed in terms of women's involvement in the field and efforts to integrate fe minist content into research and practice of the field. Reflections on the qualities of contexts that have both supported and inhibited inclusion are identified. We look to this history to try to understand the observation th at while women have been increasingly visible in leadership roles and women 's professional development has been encouraged, less progress has been mad e toward building a feminist community psychology.