Critical self-examination is the first stage of feminist politicization

Evidence

Baldwin remained committed to the idea that the disaster of our private lives shaped our public witness. We have to work on ourselves, if we are to live up to the kind of world we want to create. The props and crutches that have supported our individual identities in this country have been knocked from under our arms and feet. We have to make of ourselves a new creation without them. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 437 (#expands, via linked claim)

In that very struggle is a change of consciousness, a change of self-recognition, a new process of identification, the emergence into visibility of a new subject. A subject that was always there, but emerging, historically. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 234 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Personal moral self-examination is the precondition for political change — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America…, 437; Political struggle generates historically emergent self-recognition of subjects — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 234; Personal experience is the ground of liberatory feminist theorizing — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 151

Broader Connections

• Personal moral self-examination is the precondition for political change #expands (0.85) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 437
• Political struggle generates historically emergent self-recognition of subjects #corroborates (0.72) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 234