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The personal is political. It is a slogan that came to define feminist thought in the latter half of the 20th Century. Its provenance is not clear; Carol Hanisch is often given credit based on her 1970 article of that name, but even she says someone else said it first (Hanisch, 2006). Even so, the phrase “the personal is political” wonderfully summarizes an approach to feminist thought that relies on personal experience to problematize the workings of power and domination.
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Weaver-Hightower, M.B., Skelton, C. (2013). Gender and Education. In: Weaver-Hightower, M.B., Skelton, C. (eds) Leaders in Gender and Education. Leaders in Educational Studies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-305-8_1
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