The Personal is Political by Carol Hanisch (1969.
The 1970 essay by Carol Hanisch entitled “The Personal is Political” which helped to popularize the slogan was, in fact, an argument about the impossibility of solving the problem of women’s oppression by individual means. Written as a response to critiques of consciousness-raising groups, the essay focuses on their importance as a means of politicizing women and engaging them in.Carol Hanisch was one of the feminist pioneers that launched the Women's Liberation Movement in the 1960s. She is best known for her paper, The Personal is Political. This site presents her writings, speeches and cultural work. Founding member of New York Radical Women, 1967 Originator of the Miss America Protest, 1968 Author of the groundbreaking paper, The Personal is Political, 1969 An.The Personal is Political. A review of. Gay and Lesbian Rights Organizing: Community Based Strategies. by Yolanda C. Padilla (Ed.) Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press, 2004. 235 pp. ISBN 1.
Hanisch’s paper was printed as part of the movement anthology Notes from the. whose 1949 essay “An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!” similarly challenged the male Left’s attempt to exclude personal issues like marriage, social life, and family relationships from political organizing. Although the title of Hanisch’s paper is the original source of the slogan.Moving away from that ThreadOfDoom, I noticed a well-played TV example of one of those situations where a judgemental anti-abortion advocate finds ways to justify why she needs to terminate a pregnancy because it’s a special case (leaving character details deliberately obscure to keep this spoiler-free). She did in fact have a perfectly understandable reason for not wanting to continue with.
The origins of the phrase “the personal is political” are contested, though it is most often attributed to radical feminist Carol Hanisch. In 1969, Hanisch drafted a memo for the women’s caucus of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) in response to a claim that consciousness raising, organizing meetings of women in small groups, wasn’t a “political” project but rather a.
