3 Quotes & Sayings By Iris Marion Young

Iris Marion Young is a professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California at Los Angeles and is the author of "The Power of Nurturing: Learning to Empower Ourselves and Others." Her scholarship has been received positively by critics. Young has made significant contributions to the fields of education, child development, and psychology. She is well known as one of the founders of self-determination theory.

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between...
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Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality. Iris Marion Young
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Thus the activity of preservation should be distinguished from the nostalgia accompanying fantasies of a lost home from which the subject is separated and to which he seeks to return. Preservation entails remembrance, which is quite different from nostalgia. Iris Marion Young