another question: is this something applied to the lefttist groups that were influenced by mao?
------ i guess i didn't explain myself. i know how orientalism is normally used. i have never heard it applied to maoist influences in feminism -- which, from my reading, came from the fact that a certain strand of the women's movement evolved out of leftist groups influenced by maoism. consciousness raising is typically thought to derive from the civil rights movement, specifically blacks' use of "rap sessions".