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consciousness-raising
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consciousness-raising
n.
A process, as by group therapy, of achieving greater awareness of one's needs in order to fulfill one's potential as a person.


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To Kill a Mockingbird, the famous American novel by Harper Lee, as a consciousness-raiser, is of and for the early 1960s.
Kopple remembers that meetings were often dominated by celebrity consciousness-raisers Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland, who were touring their antiwar theatre revue FTA ("Fuck the Army
His ma (Hindi for "mother" and "earth") is an intense consciousness-raiser about humanity's sustaining yet precarious relationship with the land.
 
 
 
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