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The Women's Liberation Movement And Identity Change : An Urban Pilot Study, Molly M. Doeneka
The Women's Liberation Movement And Identity Change : An Urban Pilot Study, Molly M. Doeneka
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The purpose of this study was to determine if participation in Women's Liberation results in identity change in the individual participants. As a pilot study, it examines the characteristic experiences of a study group of twenty-six local participants and compares the effects of their participation with a theoretical model of identity change process proposed by Ward H. Goodenough in Cooperation in Change. According to this model the process of identity change is a consequence of specific kinds of realizations fostered by a series of definable stages which are: 1) achieving a desire for identity change, 2) making a commitment to …