'Can feminists say that their faith is personal and has nothing to do with the public, while still upholding that the personal is the political?' (Nighat Said Khan, 1993: x).
Carol Hanisch is a radical feminist and was an important member of New York Radical Women. She is best known for popularizing the phrase "The Personal is Political" in a 1969 essay of the same name. She was a leader of the feminist movement in the 70s and was famously known for protesting the Miss America Pageant.
The personal is political was important as it addresses the private domain and that what goes in with in the home is very much impacted by historical, social and political contexts. So domestic abuse, and women's unequal share of domestic work, the nuclear family can not be simply pushed away as private matters or seen as natural.
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