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Personal is political |
Relationships we once imagined were (and many of our friends and colleagues still prefer to think are) private or merely social are in fact infused with power that is unequal and backed by public authority. p.348 |
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Political is personal |
Politics is not shaped merely by what happens in legislative debates, voting booths, political party strategy sessions, court rooms, or war rooms. While men who dominant public life in so many countries have told women to stay in the proverbial kitchen, those same men have used their myriad forms of public power to construct private relationships in ways that have bolstered their own masculinized political control. p.348 |
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Personal is international |
ideas about what it means to be a "respectable" woman or an "honorable" man have been shaped by colonizing policies, international trade strategies, and military doctrines. p.350 |
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International is personal |
implies that governments depend on certain kinds of allegedly private relationships in order to conduct their foreign affairs. To operate in the international arena, governments seek other governments' recognition of their sovereignty; but they also depend on ideas about masculinized dignity and feminized sacrifice to sustain that sense of autonomous nationhood. p.351 |
