Arden Bastia

Jun 23, 2023 | tandfonline.com | Meg Heckman |Arden Bastia

Discussion and ConclusionAs the conversations described above illustrate, the Boston Globe’s Confidential Chat column was a venue for reproductive health consciousness raising during the women’s liberation movement. Like in-person consciousness-raising groups, the Chat was nonhierarchical and, although editors worked in the background on logistics, it had no formal, public-facing leader.