To examine working-class women's attitudes and perceptions about the Women's Movement, a study reviewed 14 collections of interviews with low-income women conducted in the 1970s. Interviews were collected from a variety of sources--academic studies, books written for the general reader, and a large-scale study commissioned by a publisher of working-class women's magazines. The women interviewed were lower-middle- or working-class with grade school or high school educations, who held jobs as clerical workers, saleswomen, waitresses, beauticians, factory workers, or unskilled laborers such as laundry workers. Results revealed that most working-class women received the majority of their initial information about the Women's Movement from the mass media, especially television. Two influential oral channels of information--conversations with family and friends, and direct contact with feminists--reinforced information gained from the media. Analysis showed that this information was generally disseminated through a male value system, which trivialized or ignored feminist issues. Most attitudes expressed toward different aspects of the Women's Movement were negative, including attitudes toward family relationships, equal pay for equal work, assertiveness in women, and traditionally feminine styles of dress and behavior. The issue of lesbianism--central in feminist circles--was rarely mentioned. Finally, analysis indicated that misunderstandings often arose because of differences in class values, as well as from distorted images received through the media. (Sixty-nine footnotes are appended.) (MM)