Carol Hanisch

Carol Hanisch

Carol Hanisch is a radical feminist and 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 1969 essay of the same name. She was a leader of the feminist movement that protested the Miss America Pageant in 1968.

ee also

*Identity politics

External links

* [http://scholar.alexanderstreet.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2259 "The Personal is Political] by Carol Hanisch, March, 1969.


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