ABSTRACT
In the 1970s feminists declared that the personal is political. This statement challenges the supposed dichotomy between the public and the private. The tenns "private" and "public" usually refer to the notion of private business contrasted with governmental services. We rely on women's vantage point and differentiate the tenns so that the term "private" refers to home and personal life-those activities thought of as women's roles-and the tenn "public" refers to paid employment, politics, and other social institutions whose control is assigned to men (Elshtain 1981).
