{"id":1046,"date":"2026-08-09T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/pyq\/explain-how-the-slogan-the-personal-is-political-addresses-the-upsc-psir-2025-0910\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:53:34","slug":"explain-how-the-slogan-the-personal-is-political-addresses-the-upsc-psir-2025-0910","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/explain-how-the-slogan-the-personal-is-political-addresses-the-upsc-psir-2025-0910\/","title":{"rendered":"Explain how the slogan \u2018the personal is political\u2019 addresses the issue of women&#8217;s oppression and discrimination?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>\u2014 how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> Present the slogan as second-wave feminism\u2019s central claim \u2014 that the private sphere is constituted by politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> Open with the liberal public\/private split the slogan was meant to dismantle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>Liberal public\/private divide \u2014 politics is public; family &amp; sexuality treated as pre-political <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Carol Hanisch<\/b> \u2014 essay in <i>Notes from the Second Year<\/i> (eds. <b class=\"pq-sc\">Firestone<\/b> &amp; <b class=\"pq-sc\">Koedt<\/b>): personal suffering as structural <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Simone de Beauvoir<\/b> \u2014 woman as the \u201cOther\u201d <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> locating oppression \u2014 domestic violence, unpaid work, control of reproduction, coercive sexuality as patriarchal <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Kate Millett<\/b> \u2014 sexual politics through personal relationships <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> the divide itself serves patriarchy \u2014 <b class=\"pq-sc\">Susan Moller Okin<\/b>, <b class=\"pq-sc\">Carole Pateman<\/b>, <b class=\"pq-sc\">Nancy Fraser<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>Collapsing the public\/private line raises the worry of erasing a protected private sphere \u2014 the feminist reply is that \u201cprivacy\u201d had long shielded domination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> The slogan reframed women\u2019s lived experience as the basis for political critique and legislative redress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> Its lasting force is to make the home a legitimate site of justice claims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[36],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[53],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1046","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-36","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-political-ideologies","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4640,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1046\/revisions\/4640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}