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)

“American feminists have generally stressed the ways in which men and women should be equal and have therefore tried to put aside differences.... Social feminists [in Europe] ... believe that men and society at large should provide systematic support to women in recognition of their dual role as mothers and workers.”
—Sylvia Ann Hewitt (20th century)

“Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.”
—Hans Magnus Enzensberger (b. 1929)