ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines theoretical framework and a basic hypothesis that sustainable structural transformation which is improbable without alliance between women of difference, as well as with other social movements. Women have been politically active in their communities; a fact which is so implicit that it has largely been taken for granted. Any commitment to anti-oppressive practice must be founded in critical analysis in order to inform a practice equipped to address issues of social justice. For these reasons, a critical feminist community work praxis which addresses alliances of Black and white women working together for change is long overdue. Working-class women are less likely to have abortions and more likely, particularly at a younger age, to give birth alone than middle-class women. Rigid emphasis on the role of the family, in its narrowest interpretation, has justified policies which have in built notions of the unpaid role of women in the home and the community.
