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Funny Things Happen on Our Way to Revolution

Ultimately, the result of co-optation is that we lose our ability to create the social changes necessary to our lives.

By Gail Sullivan

1982

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Women's Movement Wife Battery

Fighting for Control

Without feminist analysis, "without collective action shaped by feminist consciousness, without awareness that the women's movement is in fact a force for revolutionary social change (not just a band aid operation), the centres might as well fold their tents and merge with existing social service agencies.

By Myrna Kostash

January 1982

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Women's Movement Rape

The First Years

What we are creating is an organizing centre for women. Women will be able to support each other, educate each other with the stories of their lives, and move into action. Our office is already beginning to look like a transition house. On any given day yo will find kids, dogs, telephones ringing, the typewriters flying and women – all kinds of women. But it’s not enough just to hear stories. To end our oppression, we need to join together and fight back collectively. All women need the women’s movement. Therefore, the movement must be accessible – to all women.

By Joni Miller

February 1981

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Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

The function of pornography as an influence on consciousness is a major public issue of our time, when a multibillion-dollar industry has the power to disseminate increasingly sadistic, women-degrading visual images But even so-called soft-core pornography and advertising depict women as objects of sexual appetite devoid of emotional context, without individual meaning or personality: essentially as a sexual commodity to be consumed by males

By Adrienne Rich

1980

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Consciousness-Raising: A Radical Weapon

"Consciousness-raising — studying the whole gamut of women’s lives, starting with the full reality of one’s own — would also be a way of keeping the movement radical by preventing it from getting sidetracked into single issue reforms and single issue organizing. It would be a way of carrying theory about women further than it had ever been carried before, as the groundwork for achieving a radical solution for women as yet attained nowhere. It seemed clear that knowing how our own lives related to the general condition of women would make us better fighters on behalf of women as a whole."

By Kathie Sarachild

1978

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Consciousness Raising Women's Movement

The Combahee River Collective Statement

"A political contribution which we feel we have already made is the expansion of the feminist principle that the personal is political. In our consciousness-raising sessions, for example, we have in many ways gone beyond white women's revelations because we are dealing with the implications of race and class as well as sex."

By The Combahee River Collective

April 1977

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Consciousness Raising Women of Colour Women's Movement

The Personal Is Political

One of the first things we discover in these groups is that personal problems are political problems. There are no personal solutions at this time. There is only collective action for a collective solution.

By Carol Hanisch

February 1969

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Consciousness Raising Women's Movement

Take Back The Night Vancouver: Posters 1978-2005

Women's Movement

OPPRESSION

The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or occasional and hence avoidable, but are systematically related to each other in such a way as to catch one between and among them and restrict or penalize motion in any direction. It is the experience of being caged in: all avenues, in every direction, are blocked or booby trapped.

By Marilyn Frye

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Women's Movement Consciousness Raising

Women’s Movement

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Funny Things Happen on Our Way to Revolution

Ultimately, the result of co-optation is that we lose our ability to create the social changes necessary to our lives.

Fighting for Control

The First Years

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

Consciousness-Raising: A Radical Weapon

The Combahee River Collective Statement

The Personal Is Political

One of the first things we discover in these groups is that personal problems are political problems. There are no personal solutions at this time. There is only collective action for a collective solution.

Take Back The Night Vancouver: Posters 1978-2005

OPPRESSION

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