Whose personal is more political? Experience in contemporary feminist politics

An academic article by Alison Phipps about how some feminists deem their traumatic personal experiences more worthy than others in order to negate the rights and organising attempts of sex workers and transwomen.

Phipps, Alison (2016) ‘Whose personal is more political? Experience in contemporary feminist politics’, in Feminist Theory 17(3), 303-321

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