Explain how the slogan ‘the personal is political’ addresses the issue of women’s oppression and discrimination ? (Answer in 250 words)

- Explain how the slogan ‘the personal is political’ addresses the issue of women’s oppression and discrimination ? (Answer in 250 words)
Introduction
Carol Hanisch's 1969 essay gave second-wave radical feminism its most consequential claim: that the household is a site of power, and that what liberalism classified as private misfortune is in fact systemic domination.

Body

1. It dissolves the public-private divide: Liberal theory from Locke to Mill walled off the family as natural and pre-political. Carole Pateman's The Sexual Contract shows that the social contract presupposes a sexual contract subordinating women before politics even begins.
2. It redefines politics as power: Kate Millett's Sexual Politics treats every power-structured relationship as political, which makes patriarchy the oldest political system and the household a jurisdiction.
3. Consciousness-raising as method: Individual complaints, pooled in small groups, turned out to share a common structure. Personal experience thereby became evidence rather than anecdote.
4. Concrete consequences: Marital rape, domestic violence, unpaid care work and workplace harassment became public questions, producing the Vishaka guidelines and the POSH Act of 2013, the Domestic Violence Act of 2005, and time-use surveys that count unpaid labour.
5. The counter-arguments: Elshtain warns that collapsing privacy licenses intrusion; bell hooks and Crenshaw show the slogan universalised white middle-class experience; Sharmila Rege argues that in India the private is structured by caste before it is structured by gender.

Conclusion
The slogan's lasting victory is that the family is now a legitimate subject of justice, a point Susan Okin pressed against Rawls and which he eventually conceded. Its limit is that calling everything political explains nothing in particular.