Example sentences for: consciousness-raising

How can you use “consciousness-raising” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Go back and reread the Ms. of the 1970s, and you rediscover how psychological how-to-ism for women at home became consciousness-raising for women newly out in the world.

  • So, what kind of Jew am I after 60 years of consciousness-raising?

  • Both these newly enfranchised groups emphasize conversion and consciousness-raising, and insist that the personal is political.

  • Is there an automatic place for the top consciousness-raising tracts of the fifties (David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd ), sixties (Norman O. Brown's Love's Body ), seventies (Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism ), and eighties (Alan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind )? A tempting (and sensible) option is to split the difference between influence and style by picking the top books about the major events of the century: Communism (snubbing Whittaker Chambers's Witness would be a scandal), race and colonialism (Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma , Octavio Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude ); modern art (Woolf's A Room of One's Own , alas; Edmund Wilson's Axel's Castle , if To the Finland Station misses under Communism); and the Holocaust (with Anne Frank's diary likely to top the whole list).

  • After reading Bennett, however, I began to think that the consciousness-raising he preaches might actually be possible.


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