Beyond private and public - New perspectives on personal and personalist social work

The slogan 'Personal is Political' has been deployed by feminist social work as an invitation for all of us to take oppressive private matters for public-political redressal. What is glossed over in this urgency. is that the personal has been allowed to coincide with the private! This article argues that the personal is not private and urges us to go beyond private/public binaries. It concludes that the personalist social work reckons better with this corrective to aid feminist social work in the latter's emancipatory journey.