A tactic usually associated with the U.S. Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) and other feminist-activist groupings born in the late 1960s, consciousness raising involved a range of practices that stressed the primacy of gender discrimination over issues of race and class. Grounded in practical action rather than theory, consciousness raising aimed to promote awareness of the repressed and marginal status of women. As proclaimed in one of the more enduring activist slogans of the 1960s—"The personal is political"—consciousness raising took several forms, including the formation of devolved and non-hierarchical discussion groups, in which women shared their personal (and otherwise unheard) experiences of everyday lives lived within a patriarchal society. Accordingly, the agenda of consciousness raising in the early days very often focused on issues such as abortion, housework, the family, or discrimination in the workplace, issues whose political dimension had been taken...