The personal is political: health care in Canada

Lesley Cooper and Richard Freeland, Kitchener/Ontario (Canada)

The personal is political. This statement is an activist imperative, used by 1970s feminists to explain the influence of race, class and gender on the exclusion of women from decision making. Prior to this, from a completely different perspective, Mills (1959) made the observation that private pains are the manifestations of public issues. (more…)