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In 1975 tijdens de tweede feministisch golf werd in Californië een alternatief pedagogisch experiment opgezet onder de naam Califia Community. Het zijn de hoogdagen voor het feminisme en zeker in Californië is de vrouwenbeweging sterk aanwezig. Veel vrouwen nemen voor het eerst deel aan vergaderingen, workshops en acties. De Califia Community organiseerde tijdens de zomer sessies die een week duurden. Die week samenleven en samen leren zorgde voor intense leermomenten. De vrouwen leerden er van elkaars ervaringen, dachten na over alternatieve manieren van samenleven en hoe zich te organiseren om te ageren tegen de bestaande sociale orde. De lesgevers zochten naar interactieve manieren van lesgeven die recht deden aan de ervaringen van de deelnemers en stapten af van het hiërarchische leraar-student model. Niet alleen werd er nagedachte over de heersende sekserollen maar ook thema's zoals racisme, seksuele geaardheid en sociale klasse werden aangekaart

Social stratification --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Community organization --- Teaching --- Feminism --- Education --- Racism --- Sexism --- Social class --- Women's movements --- Women's organizations --- Book --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States of America

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Launched in 1975, the Califia Community organized activist educational camps and other programs in southern California until its dissolution in 1987. An alternative to mainstream academia’s attempts to tie feminism to university courses, Califia blended aspects of feminism that spanned the labels “second wave” and “radical,” attracting women from a range of gender expressions, sexual orientations, class backgrounds, and races or ethnicities. Califia Women captures the history of the organization through oral history interviews, archives, and other forms of primary research. The result is a lens for re-reading trends in feminist and social justice activism of the time period, contextualized against a growing conservative backlash. Throughout each chapter, readers learn about the triumphs and frictions feminists encountered as they attempted to build on the achievements of the postwar Civil Rights movement. With its backdrop of southern California, the book emphasizes a region that has often been overlooked in studies of East Coast or San Francisco Bay–area activism. Califia Women also counters the notions that radical and lesbian feminists were unwilling to address intersectional identities generally and that they withdrew from political activism after 1975. Instead, the Califia Community shows evidence that these and other feminists intentionally created an educational forum that embraced oppositional consciousness and sought to serve a variety of women, including radical Christian reformers, Wiccans, scholars of color, and GLBT activists.

Community education --- Women's studies --- Feminism and education --- History