Defining Community The word ‘community’ is used, and abused, in several ways. I would like to define the word ‘community’ and later on I would define the community work, particularly my own experience of working with South Asian community for last twenty years. I would also incorporate various other theories, academic work on this issue. The realistic definition of ‘community’ as a working idea related to peoples’ residence, employment, leisure patterns, and to services provided …showed first 75 words of 900 total…

…showed last 75 words of 900 total…future society. Feminist theory and the black and anti-racist critique, have demonstrated that all oppressed groups, women and black people, can, through collective action, attempt to overcome their subordination. Feminism, both as a socio-political theory and as a social movement, has, reconstructed perspectives in many different areas of life. Together, feminist theory and the black and anti-racist critique have implications for community work theory that do not rely on either localised analysis or materialist perspectives.