about coming out. The idea of coming out as a tool of consciousness-raising had been preceded by even earlier opinions from German theorists such as Magnus Hirschfeld, Iwan Bloch and Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, all of whom saw self-disclosure as a means of self-emancipation, the raising of consciousness among fellow un-closeted individuals and a means of raising awareness in the wider society. In atheism In The God Delusion, anti-religion activist Richard Dawkins uses the term "consciousness raising" for several other things, explicitly describing these as analogous to the feminist case. These include replacing references to children as Catholic, Muslim, etc. with references to children of the adults who are members of these religions (which he compares to our using non-sexist terminology) and Darwin as "raising our consciousness" in biology to the possibility of explaining complexity naturalistically and, in principle, raising our consciousness to the possibility of doing such things elsewhere (especially in physics). Earlier in the book, he uses the term (without explicitly referring to feminism) to refer to making people aware that leaving their parents' faith is an option. See also Awareness ribbon Black Consciousness Movement Critical Consciousness False consciousness Internet activism Legal awareness Situationist International Suicide awareness Wokeness Notes References Bibliography Brownmiller, Susan (1999). In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution (). Chicago Women's Liberation Union (1971), How to start your own consciousness-raising group Freeman, Jo (1972). "The Tyranny of Structurelessness". Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 17, 151–165. Redstockings (1975/1978). Feminist Revolution: an abridged edition with additional writings (). Sarachild, Kathie (1973): Consciousness-Raising: A Radical Weapon. Also reprinted in Feminist Revolution, pp. 144–150. Willis, Ellen, "Radical Feminism and Feminist Radicalism", 1984, collected in No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays, Wesleyan University Press, 1992, , p. 117–150. Awareness activism Critical pedagogy Feminism and history Feminist terminology Feminist theory Radical feminism Second-wave feminism