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Consciousness-Raising (C-R) is a tool that the Women's Liberation Movement adopted from the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, where it was called "telling it like it is." In C-R, women answer a question using examples from their personal lives, then the group uses these personal testimonies to draw conclusions about the political root of women's so-called "personal" problems.

C-R is used to:

• Collect and analyze data (e.g. women's life experiences)
• Get to the root of sexism--figure out who benefits and who pays
• Understand that the pain and struggles in our lives are not our individual problems and we cannot solve them on our own
• Take action (using C-R conclusions as the basis for our theory and strategy