Talk:Consciousness raising

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This entry needs to be substantially rewritten. An original paper called "A Program for Feminist Consciousness Raising" was written in November 1968 by Kathie Amatniek (also known as Kathie Sarachild)--a founding member of the seminal second wave feminist organizations New York Radical Women and Redstockings. It was presented at the First National Women's Liberation Conference in Lake Villa, IL on Thanksgiving of that same year.

While the concept of "consciousness raising" has historical antecedants as diverse as Willian Gilbert in 1628, Ernestine Rose in 1860, Mao Zedong in 1937 and Malcolm X in 1964, it was second wave feminists that popularized the phrase as it came to be understood--not Students for a Democratic Society. To feminists its meaning was summarized in Feminist Revolution published by Redstockings in 1978: "The only methods of consciousness raising are essentially principles. They are the basic radical political principles of going to the original sources, both historic and personal, going to people--women themselves, and going to experience for theory and strategy."

For more information, check the Redstockings website: http://www.redstockings.org. - User:Jpramas

Considering that much of the material in this correction is far more accurate than the article itself, why not integrate it, or at least turn it into a stub for a new version? - DawnDavenport

The title of this entry is wrong. "Consciousness raising," throughout this entry and in the entry's title, needs a hyphen, i.e., consciousness-raising, according to its earliest and most frequent usage--see [Redstockings website]. User:Jpramas