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Teaching the Personal and the Political: Essays on Hope and Justicereviewed by Elizabeth M. Hodge - 2004 Title: Teaching the Personal and the Political: Essays on Hope and Justice Author(s): William Ayers Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807744603, Pages: 160, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com In the 1960s, the people proclaimed that the “Personal is
Political” as a mantra against oppressive government actions
that denied the individual a voice in ensuing personal actions
– being sent to war, control over a woman’s choice,
domestic violence, etc. Typically those who used these words
were perceived as “hippies” or “freaks”
rather than activists for justice. Specifically, those who
worked to make the personal political were, in fact, striving for
justice in a democracy that seemed off kilter. But that was
the 1960s.
In the 1970s the personal was anything but political in the
sense that the personal was indeed that, all about the self, the
actions done in private as part of a sexual revolution. The
1980s fared even more stridently against the personal as political
for the person was part of a capitalist machine that made money
– the goal of a generation. The 1990s became a
bellwether of fundamentalism where the personal is political became
an anthem for religious conformity and... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Elizabeth Hodge
Gavilan College E-mail Author ELIZABETH M. HODGE is a solo instructor of philosophy who is currently pursuing a second Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Change. She has published works on domestic violence, women and philosophy, and most recently, radical pedagogy.
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