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“The Personal is Political”

Teaching Gender and Nation through Nineteenth-Century Texts

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“The personal is political” was a political slogan frequently used by feminists from the late 1960s and 1970s—the so-called second wave—who expanded the suffrage concern of the first wave to a wide range of issues such as sexuality, family, the workplace, or reproductive rights.

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Miseres, V. (2015). “The Personal is Political”. In: Gómez, L., Horno-Delgado, A., Long, M.K., Silleras-Fernández, N. (eds) Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures. Teaching Gender. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-091-8_4

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