Seminars & Lectures

The Personal and The Political: The Meaning of a Cliche

Friday, Apr 24, 2015
6:00pm -> 7:30pm
American University of Beirut (AUB)

“The famous slogan of second-wave feminism, “The personal is political”, has by now become such a commonplace that it may scarcely occur to us to ask what it really stands for. It is used so often, and by feminists of such different leanings, that it is in danger of losing its meaning altogether. Yet for feminist activists of the late 1960s and early 1970s, it signified something both important and highly contested. In fact, the slogan developed as a reaction against what certain feminists saw as a prevalent tendency to place artificial limits on the scope of the political.

Location: Nicely, Room 415