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Meaning of "consciousness raising" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING

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Consciousness raising is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Consciousness raising

Consciousness raising is a form of political activism, popularized by United States feminists in the late 1960s. It often takes the form of a group of people attempting to focus the attention of a wider group of people on some cause or condition. Common issues include diseases, conflicts, movements, and political parties or politicians. Since informing the populace of a public concern is often regarded as the first step to changing how the institutions handle it, raising awareness is often the first activity in which any advocacy group engages...

Definition of consciousness raising in the English dictionary

The definition of consciousness raising in the dictionary is the process of developing awareness in a person or group of a situation regarded as wrong or unjust, with the aim of producing active participation in changing it.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING

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consciousness-raising

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING

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Synonyms and antonyms of consciousness raising in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «consciousness raising» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING

Find out the translation of consciousness raising to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of consciousness raising from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «consciousness raising» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

意识提升
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

toma de conciencia
570 millions of speakers

English

consciousness raising
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चेतना को ऊपर उठाने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رفع الوعي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сознание во
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

elevar a consciência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চেতনা উত্থাপন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

conscientisation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penjanaan kesedaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bewusstseinsbildung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

意識啓発
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

의식 모금
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ningkatake eling
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nâng cao ý thức
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விழிப்புணர்வு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

देहभान वाढवणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Bilinç yükseltme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

presa di coscienza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

podnoszenie świadomości
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

свідомість під
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cresterea gradului de constientizare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αύξηση της συνείδησης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bewusmaking
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

medvetandegörande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bevisstgjøring
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of consciousness raising

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING»

The term «consciousness raising» is regularly used and occupies the 83.239 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about consciousness raising

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING»

Discover the use of consciousness raising in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to consciousness raising and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Feminism and Its Fictions: The Consciousness-raising Novel ...
"Fascinating chapters on the relationship between fiction, the theoretical and political debates among women's and feminist groups, and the questions of sexuality . . . and race . . . merit broad readership and prove more culturally ...
Lisa Maria Hogeland, 1998
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Becoming the Feminist Subject. Consciousness-raising Groups ...
This dissertation uses consciousness-raising groups in order to reinterpret the early years of the second wave of the feminist movement.
Voichita Nachescu, 2006
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Women Together, Women Alone: The Legacy of the ...
The thoughts of seven women on how their lives have changed since they joined the "women's movement" in the early seventies, each of whose lives is a fascinating paradigm for 20 years of social change.
Anita Shreve, 1990
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Consciousness Raising, the Body, and the Self: A Rhetorical ...
In this project I use qualitative methods of research and interview ten urban Midwestern women seeking their interpretations of The Vagina Monologues.
Margaret Ann McCue-Enser, 2006
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Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
Consciousness raising is the process through which the contemporary radical feminist analysis of the situation of women has been shaped and shared. As feminist method and practice, consciousness raising is not confined to groups explicitly ...
Catharine A. MacKinnon, 1989
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Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING. A. Constant. Change. of. Heart. Feminists are made, not born. One does not become an advocate of feminist politics simply by having the privilege of having been born female. Like all political positions one ...
Bell Hooks, 2000
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Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity
Consciousness-raising was not simply group discussion, but adhered to a specific set of guidelines. Although there was some variation in the guidelines and procedures, there was an attempt to codify both the purpose and the procedures of ...
Margaret A. McLaren, 2002
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Input Processing and Grammar Instruction in Second Language ...
says is that language acquisition can be aided by such consciousness raising, but that the actual form of consciousness raising can vary depending on first- second language contrasts and the nature of the grammatical item or structure.
Bill VanPatten, 1996
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Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice
Far from entrenching women's inferiority, consciousness-raising "shows women their situation in a way that affirms they can act to change it."49 What MacKinnon's approach shows is that consciousness-raising as a method of change is ...
Clare Chambers, 2008
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Walter Benjamin: Philosophy
WALTER. BENJAMIN. Consciousness-raising. or. rescuing. critique. Jurgen Habermas Source: Jurgen Habermas, Philosophical-Political Profiles, translated by Frederick G. Lawrence, Cambridge MA: MIT, 1983, pp. 129-163. [Originally ...
Peter Osborne, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING»

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PODCAST: Advocating for Safe Streets and a Radical Idea for …
It was a gradual process of education, consciousness raising as I realized that it wasn't just an issue of cars in a park, but it was an issue of cars ... «DNAinfo, Jul 15»
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Christian religious education is more like a form of 'consciousness raising', where within an approved curriculum children can be exposed to a ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
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Guest Post: Real change in food systems needs real ethics
Indeed, the consciousness raising work of journalists like Bittman or of activists such as Raj Patel or Frances Moore Lappé provides crucial ... «Practical Ethics, Jul 15»
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Remembering Miriam Schapiro: The unheralded legacy of a CalArts …
The 1970s were a heady time of consciousness raising and artistic experimentation in the greater Los Angeles area, and Schapiro was in the ... «Los Angeles Times, Jun 15»
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5 Lessons For PR From Cannes 2015
“Campaigns that are great at social consciousness raising and drive sales.” Having said that, there is a concern that PR could follow the path of ... «The Holmes Report, Jun 15»
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About General Assembly and CUUPS
As I started writing early this morning, some 4000 people were waking up after an evening of business, ritual, and consciousness raising. «Patheos, Jun 15»
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'Dietland': A Fat Heroine, And The Politics Of Weight
... process — there was a point where something inside me, a kind of consciousness raising, and once that happened, something shifted in me, ... «WBUR, Jun 15»
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The Path to Defeat Racism
... to help us promote these ideas in the public sphere by giving us the financial backing we need to continue this consciousness raising work. «Scoop.co.nz, Jun 15»
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The 50-plus book club: N.J. women have been reading together …
So after our book discussions, and over coffee, we did our share of consciousness raising. I remember those conversations vividly, even though ... «NJ.com, Jun 15»
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Panchayats step forward to make a difference
... of the issue and also organising 547 consciousness raising events and 184 'balika janmotsavs' or celebrations to mark the birth of baby girls. «Business Standard, Jun 15»

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