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The feminist slogan 'the personal is political' shifts the study of politics from an arena-based conception to one centred on power. What consequence does this move have for what a researcher investigates as political data?
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- Does defining politics through power reduce its scope to private life, or broaden where power can be found?
- How does an arena-based definition differ from a relation-based one in terms of boundary settings?
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A. It includes interpersonal power relations in ordinary domestic settings
Why
Equating politics with power expands the scope of analysis to informal hierarchies, rather than restricting it to households or discarding state institutions. Methodological scope broadens rather than shifting to a new exclusivity.
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