Female Consciousness or Feminist Consciousness?: Women's Consciousness Raising Community-Based Struggles in Brazil

Viva ◽  
2014 ◽  
pp. 150-169
Keyword(s):  
Community Based ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Feminist Consciousness ◽  
Female Consciousness

When Feminism Went to Market

2019 ◽  
pp. 418-436
Author(s):  
Rachel R. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Feminist Consciousness ◽  
Feminist Discourse ◽  
Material Conditions

The comics anthology has long served as a productive format by which creators with a feminist consciousness have made their individual efforts visible and elaborated their networks of other like-minded creators. The material conditions under which comics anthologies with a feminist consciousness are made and received reveal how comics are a unique medium whose reach extends beyond the spaces where we expect to find feminist discourse, such as the feminist bookstore, rally, or consciousness-raising meeting. Looking at how feminist comics anthologies address these material conditions, this chapter considers how Sarah Dyer’s Action Girl Comics anthology in the early 1990s is inflected by Dyer’s history as a grass-roots zine maker and situates itself within the larger comics industry. The chapter then turns to Dyer’s archive at the Sallie Bingham Center to elaborate how her all-girl comics anthology’s mission to saturate the comics marketplace with women’s work actually played out.

Consciousness-Raising

2020 ◽  
pp. 232-245
Author(s):  
Tabatha Leggett
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
First Person ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Collective Voice ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Feminist Consciousness ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter examines consciousness-raising as a means of challenging oppression. Bringing the #MeToo movement into contact with first-person accounts and criticisms of the radical feminist consciousness-raising groups that formed in New York and Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s, it suggests that they remain an essential force to challenge female oppression today. It touches on the various ways that patriarchal structures silence women, how consciousness-raising undercuts this silencing by giving women a collective voice, and how social media can amplify this voice. Finally, it addresses common criticisms of consciousness-raising movements, especially concerning the disproportionate focus on white women’s concerns that they have historically represented and universalized. It touches on Kimberlé Crenhaw’s theory of intersectionality as well as Paulo Friere’s conception of critical consciousness theory to explore the notion of truly inclusive consciousness-raising movements.

Awareness and Change

Ethical Life ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Webb Keane
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Feminist Consciousness ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter discusses the idea of ethical history, looking at situations in which hitherto taken-for-granted aspects of everyday life came to be the focus of attention, such as feminist consciousness-raising in the 1960s and 1970s. Indeed, the American feminist movement is the invention and promulgation of the technique of consciousness-raising. Consciousness-raising is interesting for several reasons: it took very seriously the effects of problematizing the habits of everyday life, it succeeded in changing the descriptions and evaluations of actions and persons that were available for many Americans, and it ultimately foundered, in part, on an unresolved tension between subjective experience and objective social analysis. The chapter then argues that processes like this play an important role in the historical transformations of ethical and moral worlds.

“Mythologized for Its Misogyny”

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-198
Author(s):  
Carolyn Bronstein ◽  
Jacqueline Lambiase
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Advertising Industry ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Feminist Consciousness

Much like other creative professions, the advertising industry and especially its creative departments have been host to a culture of discrimination and sexual harassment, with recent high-profile incidents leading to the formation of Time's Up/Advertising in 2018. These incidents have revived feminist consciousness-raising in new forms and old, inspiring new commitments to fighting sexism in agencies. This essay discusses the origins of Time's Up/Advertising and its initial actions, as well as the challenges the movement will face in its efforts to rid the advertising industry of misogyny. These problems must be solved if advertising aspires to remain a viable creative industry.

A Call to Arms: The Centrality of Feminist Consciousness‐Raising Speak‐Outs to the Recovery of Rape Survivors

Hypatia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 730-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Kelland
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Rape Survivors ◽  
Feminist Consciousness ◽  
Canonical Narratives

This article explores the various challenges that survivors of rape and sexual violence face when attempting to construct a narrative of their experience under political and epistemic conditions that are not supportive: including the absence of adequate language with which to understand, articulate, and explain their experiences; narrative disruptions at the personal, interpersonal, and social levels; hermeneutical injustice; and canonical narratives that typically further the harms experienced by survivors. In response, I argue that feminist consciousness‐raising speak‐outs should be revived by contemporary feminists since they are able to do significant work to ameliorate the above‐mentioned challenges and thereby aid in the recovery of rape survivors.

scholarly journals Feminist Consciousness-Raising in The Girls from Ames

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Salman Salama Abdul-Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Feminist Consciousness ◽  
Mental And Physical Health ◽  
Feminist Practice ◽  
Changing Society

This paper constructs the mechanisms of feminist consciousness-raising and face to face feminism as a teaching and nurturing style of life in Jeffrey Zaslow’s The Girls from Ames (2009). The paper also constructs an argument that the Ames girls’ less-political circle of consciousness-raising works as a social process that helps them learn from each other how to comprehend and name their experiences, and how to identify and assess their commonalities and differences. As findings, this study supports with evidence from text the powers of feminist consciousness-raising, which has been an important feminist practice since the beginning of the second feminist wave, not only in maintaining the mental and physical health of the ten women, but in helping the girls survive the challenges of their ever-changing society, build new identities and overcome their misfortunes as well. 

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