Trying to Make the Personal Political: Feminism and Consciousness-Raising / Women's Action Alliance, Lori Sharpe, Jane Ginsburg and Gail Gordon, Mariame Kaba, and Jacqui Shine

Identifier:FA.DO.0008

Publication dates:2017

created by: Women's Action Alliance, Lori Sharpe, Jane Ginsburg, Gail Gordon, Mariame Kaba, Jacqui Shine

Subjects: PDF, Zines

Description:A PDF version of a reprint of Consciousness-Raising Guidelines, a text from 1975 by the Women's Action Alliance. It is expanded with a new forward by Mariame Kaba and an afterword by Jacqui Shine.

"There is much to consider about Consciousness-Raising (CR) as a political education strategy. There are questions about why CR mostly appealed to white middle class women. There are questions about whether CR laid a foundation for contemporary concerns about trigger warnings and the politics of identity. In the afterword of this booklet, writer and historian Jacqui Shine extends our knowledge about the social context in which CR emerged as a practice among certain feminists." -- description from Half Letter Press