Carol Hanisch

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Who is Carol Hanisch?

Carol Hanisch is a radical feminist and was an important member of New York Radical Women and Redstockings. She is best known for popularizing the phrase "The Personal Is Political" in a 1969 essay of the same name. She also conceived the 1968 Miss America protest and was one of the four women who hung a women's liberation banner over the balcony at the Miss America Pageant, disrupting the proceedings.

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Nationality
  • United States of America
Education
  • Drake University

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on July 23, 2013

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