1. Directive: The Personal is Political
Central to the United States’ Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) of the 1960s and 1970s, and prompted by urgency for collectivity; protests, advocacies, and feminist theory spurred the progressive unshackling of women from “male supremacy” and systemic oppression. “The personal is political” has since etched itself into a slogan, an outcry and a representation for women against the backdrop of systematically-indoctrinated patriarchal society.
As appendage to Carol Hanisch’s (1970) paper published in Notes from the Second Year: Women’s Liberation – the personal is political was initialized as an assertive rebuttal against dissenters of women’s conscious-raising groups, downplaying their political merits. The message encapsulated the importance of unlocking and voicing issues of oppression ensuing behind closed doors, involving: sex, abortion, housework, childcare and beauty misconceived as individually-personal problems not needing incorporation into the WLM. The term political fills the extensions of “power relationships” appropriated along social-institutional intersectionality.
2. Prelude: Intimidation – Personal, Political, or Both?
Receiving the instructions for this assignment, intending involvement in a public women-centered event in order to complete this analytical-review, …show more content…
Despite desperately wanting to stay true to its symbolic intentions; I find myself entangled in a Catch-22 rooted within, serving as a mechanism of both oppressive-isolation and collective-solidarity simultaneously. To flesh out my stance; I will address foundations upholding the WMM while making connections to issues representing: power relations, culture, and solidarity within the binding framework of cultural violence. All in the hope of enlightening an alternate inclusion to holistic
Central to the United States’ Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) of the 1960s and 1970s, and prompted by urgency for collectivity; protests, advocacies, and feminist theory spurred the progressive unshackling of women from “male supremacy” and systemic oppression. “The personal is political” has since etched itself into a slogan, an outcry and a representation for women against the backdrop of systematically-indoctrinated patriarchal society.
As appendage to Carol Hanisch’s (1970) paper published in Notes from the Second Year: Women’s Liberation – the personal is political was initialized as an assertive rebuttal against dissenters of women’s conscious-raising groups, downplaying their political merits. The message encapsulated the importance of unlocking and voicing issues of oppression ensuing behind closed doors, involving: sex, abortion, housework, childcare and beauty misconceived as individually-personal problems not needing incorporation into the WLM. The term political fills the extensions of “power relationships” appropriated along social-institutional intersectionality.
2. Prelude: Intimidation – Personal, Political, or Both?
Receiving the instructions for this assignment, intending involvement in a public women-centered event in order to complete this analytical-review, …show more content…
Despite desperately wanting to stay true to its symbolic intentions; I find myself entangled in a Catch-22 rooted within, serving as a mechanism of both oppressive-isolation and collective-solidarity simultaneously. To flesh out my stance; I will address foundations upholding the WMM while making connections to issues representing: power relations, culture, and solidarity within the binding framework of cultural violence. All in the hope of enlightening an alternate inclusion to holistic