consciousness-raising

(20th century)

Feminist theory of understanding.

Women's understanding of their social and political situation is achieved by group discussion in which personal experience is related and re-assessed. Individual experience is thus shown to be both typical (rather than isolated or abnormal), and a basis for wider social and political action and understanding.

Source:
Maggie Humm, The Dictionary of Feminist Theory (London, 1989)


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