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I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.
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Meaning of "consciousness-raising" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING

consciousness-raising  [ˈkɒnʃəsnəsˌreɪzɪŋ] play
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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 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 RHYME WITH CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING


advertising
ˈædvəˌtaɪzɪŋ
amazing
əˈmeɪzɪŋ
appraising
əˈpreɪzɪŋ
blazing
ˈbleɪzɪŋ
fundraising
ˈfʌndˌreɪzɪŋ
glazing
ˈɡleɪzɪŋ
grazing
ˈɡreɪzɪŋ
hazing
ˈheɪzɪŋ
hell-raising
ˈhɛlˌreɪzɪŋ
merchandising
ˈmɜːtʃənˌdaɪzɪŋ
organizing
ˈɔːɡənaɪzɪŋ
overgrazing
ˌəʊvəˈɡreɪzɪŋ
phasing
ˈfeɪzɪŋ
phrasing
ˈfreɪzɪŋ
raising
ˈreɪzɪŋ
rising
ˈraɪzɪŋ
stargazing
ˈstɑːɡeɪzɪŋ
sungazing
ˈsʌnˌɡeɪzɪŋ
surprising
səˈpraɪzɪŋ
trail-blazing
ˈtreɪlbleɪzɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING

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WORDS THAT END LIKE CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING

agonising
appetising
below-the-line advertising
bruising
compromising
consciousness raising
contextual advertising
display advertising
Easter Rising
enterprising
hair-raising
housing
practising
promising
self-raising
subliminal advertising
unappetising
uncompromising
unpromising
unsurprising
uprising

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

提高意识
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la toma de conciencia
570 millions of speakers

English

consciousness-raising
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चेतना जुटाने
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

رفع مستوى الوعي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

повышение сознательности
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

conscientização
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সচেতনতা বৃদ্ধির
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sensibilisation
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

Eling-eling
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ý thức nuôi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உணர்வு திரட்டும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चैतन्य-उभारणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bilinçlendirme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sensibilizzazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zwiększania świadomości
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підвищення свідомості
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

conștiință de sensibilizare
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

ευαισθητοποίηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bewusmaking
14 millions of speakers
sv

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»

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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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QUOTES WITH «CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word consciousness-raising.
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Nancy Friday
I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.

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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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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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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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»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term consciousness-raising is used in the context of the following news items.
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SA Communist Party: The ANC's neutered lapdog | Politics | RDM
Yes, there were times when it played a leading role forming and running night schools where political education and consciousness-raising ... «Rand Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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Fun-Deprived Tag Team of NY Times Critics Again Scorch Summer …
... readers a space in which discuss sex, gender, gendered violence and pop culture as their foremothers' did in consciousness-raising groups. «NewsBusters, Jul 15»
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National Post View: He's not a picky eater, he's an ARFID
We read on, and find the article is a consciousness-raising exercise — shameless publicity of the sort to which lifestyle sections are inherently ... «National Post, Jul 15»
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Heroines Triumph at Box Office, but Has Anything Changed in …
... gender, gendered violence and pop culture as their foremothers' did in consciousness-raising groups. Sites like Girl-Wonder.org, meanwhile, ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Life's A Riot
Yes, Eugene, it's time to salute your burgeoning music scene, and a part of that consciousness-raising should rightly involve a three-fingered ... «Eugene Weekly, Jul 15»
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Pop culture's Black Lives Matter moment couldn't come at a better time
Politics, except during very rare moments, have ceased to give me much hope, even though I am optimistic about the consciousness-raising ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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What It Took to Bring Afrobeat Royalty Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 to …
The son of Fela Kuti, the late Nigerian-born musician whose transcendent music and consciousness-raising rhetoric put him the same class as ... «Houston Press, Jul 15»
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The Vancouver International Jazz Festival is Transcendental
It was a consciousness-raising experience. He also brought along three super high octane young players (his drummer Mike Mitchell is only 20 ... «The Peak, Jul 15»
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Colby Cosh: Confederate flag best remembered as racist …
... the so-called “Confederate flag” took over the discussion largely because of the recent Civil War consciousness-raising by Ta-Nehisi Coates, ... «National Post, Jun 15»
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Historical Society's founding is itself an example of memory revived
The Frenchman's trip catalyzed a historical consciousness-raising in Philadelphia and the rest of the country, directly inspiring the founding of ... «Philly.com, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Consciousness-Raising [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/consciousness-raising-1>. Apr 2024 ».
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