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Explain how the slogan ‘the personal is political’ addresses the issue of women’s oppression and discrimination?

  • UPSC 2025
  • 15 marks
  • Political Ideologies

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Identified with Carol Hanisch's 1969 memo, published under that title in 1970, the slogan addresses women's oppression by moving it. Suffering the liberal tradition filed as private or natural is shown to be structural, produced by power, and so open to public remedy.

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  • The mechanism: three moves
  • Oppression: what privacy concealed
  • Discrimination: how the private produces the public
  • Critiques
  • Conclusion
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