Naples, Nancy, ed. (1998). Community Activism and Feminist Politics.

Routledge.

Pardo, Mary. (1998). Mexican American Women Activists. Temple University

Press.

Leavitt, Jackie. (2003). Where's the Gender in Community Development? Signs,

29, 209-233.

Hayden, Dolores. (2005). What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like? Speculations

on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work. In. S. Fainstein and L. Servon

(Eds.), Gender and Planning: A Reader (pp. 47-64). New Brunswick, NJ:

Rutgers University Press.

If you are interested in historical literature, Daphne Spain, Dolores

Hayden, Gail Dubrow and Gwendolyn Wright have some wonderful pieces.

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Stacy Harwood at the U. Illinois CU did her dissertation on women and the planning process (& social capital), using Santa Ana immigrant community as a case. Here is her research page:

http://www.urban.uiuc.edu/research/harwood.html

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How Women Saved the City by Daphne Spain

university of Minnesota Press

http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/S/spain_women.html

Bureau Men, Settlement Women by Camilla Stivers

U of Kansas Press

*New in Paperback: September 2002*

xii, 188 pages, 6 x 9

/Studies in Government and Public Policy/

Paper ISBN 0-7006-1222-X, $16.95

http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/stibur.html

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Manning Thomas, June. "Neighborhood Planning: Uses of Oral History," Journal of

Planning History 2:1, Feb. 2004. 50-70.

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consider the Madres de Plaza de Mayo as example of women activists and community organizers. They are the premier human rights organization in Latin America.

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a collection edited by Ann Bookman and Sandra Morgen entitled Women and the Politics of Empowerment.

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Anything by Marsha Ritzdorf and June Thomas; Leonie Sandercock, Mongrel Cities in the 21st Century.

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McCourt, Kathleen

1977 Working Class Women and Grass-roots Politics. University of Indiana Press.

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Marilyn Waring's "If Women Counted". Here's a

link to an interview with her:

http://aurora.icaap.org/talks/waring.htm

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Hayden. D. 1984. Redesigning the American Dream. N.Y: W.W. Norton

Various good chapters focused on women.

And

Lampere. L. Stepick, A, and Grenier, G. (Eds). 1994. Newcomers to the

Workplace: Immigrants and Restructuring of the U.S. Economy. Philadelphia:

Temple Univ. Press.

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work by Daphne Spain and Genie Birch