ABSTRACT
Feminism is resoundingly political. One of the slogans that is perhaps most familiar is the claim that “the personal is the political.” By this light, it seems, feminism refuses the gendered distinction of a male sphere of public life from a female realm of domestic economy. Feminism insists that politics is not something that happens between men alone: the supposedly natural order of relations between men and women is itself political, a matter for discussion and struggle. Even traditional notions of the nature of the political, which exclude or severely restrict female participation, have a gender politics.
