Other topics related to the Feminist Movement
(mentioned in The Heidi Chronicles)

Women's Collectives: The play mentions a women's collective. This is a term used broadly to describe an organization in which women work together to improve their own situations and the situations of other women. Some collectives are farms where women grow food together for subsistance and sale. Other collectives are living communities, such as the Women's Collective at Oberlin College, established in 1972. Still others are resource centers, such as the Free Women's Collective at the University of Connecticut,which was also established in 1972.

Consciousness-raising groups: Consciousness-raising groups held meetings where women discussed their experiences and shared ideas about women's rights, relationships, and empowerment. A number of feminist organizations began encouraging women to form these groups in the late 1960s. This model proved to be an important means of raising women's consciousness about feminist issues. A women's collective in Connecticut wrote a set of guidelines for organizing consciousness-raising groups that gives a sense of how some of them were structured.