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Changing Social Roles of Women, 1940-1970
Second-/ or Third-Order Document
Typical Questions for Consciousness
Raising Group Discussions
Source: Doreen Rappaport, "What Got You Interested,"
American Women, Their Lines and Their
Words (New York: Harper-Collins, 1992).
- Why did you want to join this group?
- What are some of the things that got you interested
in the women's movement?
- Were you treated differently from your brothers?
- What did you do as a little girl that was different
from what little boys did?
- Did you ever want to do anything else
- Did you have heroines or heroes?
- How did you learn what "feminine" meant?
- How do you feel about being single, married, or
divorced?
- What have been the pressures of family or society
on you?
- Did you consider having children a matter of choice?
- What hopes do you have for your daughter? Son?
- Why are these hopes different?
- Have you ever felt like a sex object?
- How do you feel about your body? Face?
- Do you want to be beautiful?
- Do you ever feel invisible?
- What is a "nice girl"?
- What have you done to please others even when
it's displeased you? Why?
- How do you feel about getting old?
- What parts about aging do you look forward to?
- What parts about aging do you fear?
- What would you most like to do in life?
- What, if anything, has kept you from doing it?
- What are some of the things you would like to
see the women's movement accomplish?
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