Gender and Colonialism Quotes

“Both the nature of the settings and the choices available to individuals are influenced considerably by their status in society: for example, gender and class. Individuals growing up in poverty will spend their time in settings characterized by deprivation – poor housing, inadequately
resourced schools, deprived neighbourhoods – while individuals growing up with privileged backgrounds will spend their time in enriched settings.”
― Geraldine Moane, Gender and Colonialism: A Psychological Analysis of Oppression and Liberation

“Psychological development and psychological change are not privatized individualized processes which happen regardless of social context, but are intrinsically and dynamically related to the individual’s specific social context. Indeed, it is one of the fallacies of many models in psychology and psychotherapy and also of the self-help movement that it is possible to change the individual without changing the social context (McLellan, 1995; Rapping, 1996; Smail, 2001).”
― Geraldine Moane, Gender and Colonialism: A Psychological Analysis of Oppression and Liberation

“In adulthood, class and gender will continue to influence the choices and opportunities available to individuals (Bronfenbrenner, 2004).”
― Geraldine Moane, Gender and Colonialism: A Psychological Analysis of Oppression and Liberation

“Critics of psychoanalysis and the human potential movement viewed this emphasis on the person and on private individualized experience as a form of mystification which obscures the role of social conditions in creating psychological distress, reflecting racist, sexist and class bias (Rapping, 1996; Smail, 2001).”
― Geraldine Moane, Gender and Colonialism: A Psychological Analysis of Oppression and Liberation