Carol Hanisch
American radical feminist activist (born 1942) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Carol Hanisch (born 1942) is an American radical feminist activist. She was an important member of New York Radical Women and Redstockings. She is best known for popularizing the phrase "the personal is political" in a 1970 essay of the same name.[1] She does not take responsibility of the phrase, stating in her 2006 updated essay, with a new introduction, that did not name it that, or in fact use it in the essay at all. Instead she claims that the title was done by the editors of Notes from the Second Year: Women's Liberation (where it was published), Shulamith Firestone and Anne Koedt. She also conceived the 1968 Miss America protest and was one of the four women who hung a women's liberation banner over the balcony at the Miss America Pageant, disrupting the proceedings.[2]
Carol Hanisch | |
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Born | 1942 (age 81ā82) Iowa, U.S. |
Occupation | Activist |
Notable work | "The personal is political" (1969) |
Movement | Radical feminism |