| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 社會教育研究所 === 89 === It has been over 10 years since the Feminist Groups of Taiwan began to promote and develop Feminist Consciousness-Raising Groups from1987, the contents of these groups were based on the programs used in all over the United States by NOW (National organization for Women) in 1960 and 70. The purposes of which are to make the participants recognize the minority situation women are facing in the society, reject the social traditional sexual role playing, and understand that the sexual discrimination is a collective problem, so that can only be solved in a collective way. The objects of this study are six members from the Feminist Consciousness-Raising Group held by the Taipei Association for the Promotion of Women’s Rights in 1999, through a way of quality research, participation, observation and interviews, researcher tries to understand the Feminist Consciousness-Raising Groups’ influences toward their feminist awareness.
In the ten times group discussion with nine main themes, this research picked out three main themes which are more important to analyze: “Rape and Violence” , “Women, Sex and Choices” and “Mother-Daughter Relationships”, add into other discussions made by researcher about “Collective Sexual Awareness” like the recognition of sexual role model, the awareness of the situation of women, and their point of view toward the feminist movement, from pre-interviews, groups discussions and post-interviews, researcher tries to realize the changes of their point of view about these four topics and find out whether there is a shaping process of feminism.
This research categorizes the influences toward the six members into four types: Mei-sho is the one who hold the original feminist consciousness, Gia-yu holds her original idea of individualism, Shiau-ya holds her original patriarchal thoughts, the other three members Jay-yi, Pei-shan and Cho-li accepts some thoughts of feminism after joined the group, their original thoughts of patriarchy are gradually de-constructing. Besides, this research also approaches the motivation and needs about why the six members joined the group, their feelings and gains from this group, and their suggestions and ideas about this group, to sort out the reasons which influence the members’ level of participation and how much they accept feminist consciousness.
On a whole, it is easier for the Feminist Consciousness-Raising Groups to make the participants aware the universality of some women’s situation and change their original action and willingness to act, but if you try to make them realize the reason which creates the women’s collective situation-- the activation from the ideology of the patriarchal society, it seems to become more difficult. So the suggestion is that these groups can strengthen the members realization of this part of problem, but the premise is to recognize the situation of women by a way of sharing their experiences. Besides, the suggestions to the operation of Feminist Consciousness-Raising Groups are: think about the position of these groups, strengthen the pre-explanation about them , and the sift through process of members, pay attention to the experiences of leaders, use multiple materials in group discussions, and the de-stigmatization of Feminist Consciousness-Raising Groups.
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