Some commentators, and the occasional senator, have referred to the event as a kind of consciousness-raising session.

Safety at Wrenwood may mean the security of a porcelain-lined igloo or the supposed comfort of consciousness-raising sessions.

A group of women - "five furies in the front room" - have gathered for that quaint get-together of the past, a consciousness-raising session.

The atmosphere tonight is a little like a consciousness-raising session - there's an earnest aura of learning together and sustaining one another in a benighted world.

Besides documenting their own regions, members will participate in workshops, lectures and other consciousness-raising sessions meant to lift the medium's self-esteem.

These consciousness-raising sessions allowed early radical feminists to develop a political ideology based on common experiences women faced with male supremacy.

"Cops don't have to go to consciousness-raising sessions to learn about money and power in society," he said.

They built their ranks by a technique called the consciousness-raising session, in which feminists would come together and exchange horror stories about how badly men had treated them.