gender studies

🇺🇸bell hooks

Education

Feminism

1952–2021

"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."

🇺🇸Warren Farrell

Science

feminism

b. 1943

"I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental."

🇺🇸Camille Paglia

Education

Structuralism

b. 1947

"Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin."

🇺🇸Samuel R. Delany

Literature

b. 1942

"Simply turn them loose in the haze of their own injured psyches and they will create an enemy, greater and more malignant than any a psychologist could create for them, always hidden behind their own terror."

🇺🇸Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Literature

1950–2009

"Seemingly, this society wants its children to know nothing; wants its queer children to conform or die; and wants not to know that it is getting what it wants."

🇺🇸Andrea Dworkin

Literature

1946–2005

"One needs either equality or political and economic superiority."

🇺🇸Donna Haraway

Science

b. 1944

"All of reality in late capitalist culture lusts to become an image for its own security."

Otto Weininger

Philosophy

1880–1903

"To understand a man is really to be that man."

🇺🇸Kate Bornstein

Literature

b. 1948

"There are only people who are fluidly-gendered, and … the norm is that most of these people continually struggle to maintain the illusion that they are one gender or another."

🇺🇸Joanna Russ

Literature

1937–2011

"Only those who have reviewed, year in and year out, know how truly abominable most fiction is."

"I argue, then, that we might do well to attempt what is surely impossible—to withdraw our allegiance, however compulsory, from a reality based on the Ponzi scheme of reproductive futurism."

🇦🇺Germaine Greer

gender studies

Feminism

b. 1939

"Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to."

🇺🇸Julia Serano

Literature

b. 1967

"People usually gravitate toward single-issue activism because they are unconcerned about forms of marginalization that do not personally impact them."

🇦🇺Raewyn Connell

Education

b. 1944

"The dominance of science in discussions of masculinity thus reflects the position of masculinity in the social relations of gender."

🇺🇸Iris Marion Young

Science

1949–2006

"Social movements for global democracy and justice should try not only to build on and create global legal and regulatory institutions, but also to expand possibilities for transnational association and public spheres."

🇳🇬Buchi Emecheta

Literature

1944–2017

"Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us."

🇺🇸Judith Butler

Philosophy

Post-structuralism

b. 1956

"I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality. I was never against the category of men."

"They Never Wanted To Be Themselves , New York Times, May 24, 1987"