Gender Role Orientation

Famous quotes containing the words gender, role and/or orientation:

    “... lynching was ... a woman’s issue: it had as much to do with ideas of gender as it had with race.”
    —Paula Giddings (b. 1948)

    “Man, truly the animal that talks, is the only one that needs conversations to propagate its species.... In love conversations play an almost greater role than anything else. Love is the most talkative of all feelings and consists to a great extent completely of talkativeness.”
    —Robert Musil (1880–1942)

    “Institutions of higher education in the United States are products of Western society in which masculine values like an orientation toward achievement and objectivity are valued over cooperation, connectedness and subjectivity.”
    —Yolanda Moses (b. 1946)