"the personal is political" (1971)

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Meany; By Joseph C. Goulden. 504 pp. New York: Atheneum. $12.95.
By WILSON C. McWILLIAMS. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Oct 22, 1972. p. BR2 (1 page):
Contemporary feminists have insisted that the "personal is the political." So it is, as the classic political philosphers knew. And conversely, political life always depends on personality. Perhaps, in the abstract, George Meany would agree.

J. Edgar's WLM Caper; Letty Cottin Pogrebin is a writer and an editor at Ms. Magazine who has so far received two pages from her FBI file.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin. The Washington Post (1974-Current file). Washington, D.C.: May 17, 1977. p. A17 (1 page) :
The FBI never understood the feminist tenet that "the personal is political."

The Emergence of Women From the Movement-Ridden '60's; Book World PERSONAL POLITICS: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left. By Sara Evans (Knopf. 274 pp. $10)
Reviewed by Anne Laurent. The Washington Post (1974-Current file). Washington, D.C.: May 22, 1979. p. C4 (1 page):
Her book, "Personal Politics" after the women's liberation slogan "the personal is political," is an investigation into "the roots of women's liberation in the civil rights movement and the new left."


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   The Herald Saturday, July 16, 1977 Chicago, Illinois
...Yet Mor- and others in believe the PERSONAL IS POLITICAL and must beshared.....Reviewed by Nancy 1 Reese Subtitled PERSONAL Chronicle of a Robin Morgan's..
(Review of GOING TOO FAR by Robin Morgan--ed.)
Pg. 54?, col. 2:
Yet Morgan, and others in the women's movement, believe the personal is political and must be shared.



(JSTOR)
Review: [untitled review]
Author(s) of Review: Siew Hwa Beh
Reviewed Work(s): The Woman's Film by Judy Smith; Louise Alaimo; Ellen Sorrin
Film Quarterly > Vol. 25, No. 1 (Autumn, 1971), pp. 48-49
Pg. 49:
The film (THE WOMEN'S FILM - ed.) shows that personal experience leads to political action as these working-class women come to realize that the personal is political and the goal is political power.


(JSTOR)
Political Science
Kay Boals
Signs > Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn, 1975), pp. 161-174
Pg. 172: A further sense of the direction in which it may be desirable to move in reconceptualizing the nature and scope of politics is provided by the idea, prominent within the feminist movement, that "the personal is the political," that is, that the problems individuals encounter are not the result of unique personal weakness, but rather are caused by the structure of societal institutions, and in particular by the sex-role system.

Review: [untitled review]
Author(s) of Review: Walter L. Goldfrank
Reviewed Work(s): Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. by Eugene D. Genovese
Contemporary Sociology > Vol. 4, No. 6 (Nov., 1975), pp. 619-624
Pg. 623: Contemporary sociologists have begun to recognize the pervasiveness of power and domination in ordinary institutional life ("the personal is political").




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Publication title:Off Our Backs. Washington: Jun 30, 1975. Vol. 5, Iss. 5;  pg. 7

NEW YORK -- The longtime radical feminists of Redstockings (founded in early 1969, disbanded in late 1970 and recreated in 1973,) held a press conference on May 9 at the Media Women's Conference, which was presented at the same time as the MORE journalism convention. At the press conference, Redstockings presented a sixteen-page document alleging that Gloria Steinem had worked for the CIA for at least ten years (1959-69) and that Ms. magazine is not an authentic part of the liberal feminist movement, but is hurting the movement.

The Redstockings women, who originated consciousness-raising and coined such slogans as "sisterhood is powerful" and "the personal is political", say that they have studied Steinem and Ms. for a year. They say that Steinem not only worked for a CIA-funded group, the Independent Research Service, (a group that they say Ramparts exposed in 1967), from 1959-62, but also continued on its Board of Directors in 1968-69, after the Ramparts exposure. This directorship was mentioned in her first listing in Who's Who in America, but in all later editions of Who's Who her period of employment is reduced from three years (1959-62) to one year (1959-60) and the later directorship is never mentioned again. Redstockings say this is typical of the media's coverage of Steinem; they say the media installed her as a "leader" of the women's movement and covered her past activities.