Siince its publication more than a decade ago, this highly influential book has won international acclaim and pioneered a revolution in our understanding of female development psychology. Now, witth more than half a million copies of the first edition inprint, CArol Gillgan reflects on the impact and implictions of her findings in a new preface to ...
Relying on literature, biblical stories, mythological allegories, and psychological case studies, Carol Gilligan makes palpable for readers the pain and pleasure of human love relationships.
From the ardently religious young woman who longs for the life of a male scholar to the young rebel who visits a strip club, smokes pot, and agonizes over her loss of faith to the proud Lubavitcher with a desire for a high-powered career, Stephanie Wellen Levine provides a rare glimpse into the inner worlds and daily lives of these Hasidic girls. ...
In the fourteen articles collected in this volume, Gilligan and her colleagues expand the theoretical base of "In A Different Voice" and apply their research methods to a variety of life situations. The contrasting voices of justice and care clarify different ways in which women and men speak about relationships and lend different meanings to ...
Following a passionate affair and betrayal, Kyra attends therapy sessions that repeat the themes of love and loss. Kyra soon challenges its structure, and the struggle that ensues between Kyra and her therapist, Greta, opens the way to a larger understanding.
On the way to womanhood, what does a girl give up? For five years, Lyn Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan, with this question in mind, listened to 100 girls who were negotiating the rough terrain of adolescence. This book invites the reader to listen, too, to hear in these girls' voices what is rarely spoken, often ignored, and generally misunderstood ...
A groundbreaking work offering major new insights into girls' development and women's psychology. Just as important, this book provides women with the means of meeting girls at the critical crossroads of adolescence, of harkening to the voices of girlhood and sustaining their self-affirming notes.
Why is America again unjustly at war? Why is its politics distorted by wedge issues like abortion and gay marriage? Why is anti-Semitism still so powerfully resurgent? Such contradictions within democracies arise from a patriarchal psychology still alive in our personal and political lives in tension with the equal voice that is the basis of ...
When adolescent girls once assured and resilient, silence or censor themselves to maintain relationships, they often become depressed and develop psychological problems. But when adolescent girls remain outspoken, they are often excluded. If this is true in an affluent suburban setting, where much of the research took place, what of girls from ...
In this volume the editors incorporate the experiences of African Americans into the discourse on moral-development theory and moral education. By citing historical developments from the days of slavery to the present, the authors provide a framework through which one can interpret the way morality has been cultivated amongst Black minorities. ...
These essays apply influential, pathbreaking psychological studies about women's lives to literature. In their analyses of fictional portraits, contributors both challenge and confirm psychological theories about female identity, about connection/separation as developmental catalysts, and about the impact of gender on voice, moral decision-making, ...
This practical book demonstrates how to identify adolescent girls' resistance so that the therapist can help them recognize their strengths and hear their own voices as they grow into young women.
"Trusting What You Know" shows that building genuine trustworthy relationships between teachers and students is pivotal in students' capacity to learn. Based on an extended research study by Miriam Raider-Roth, an educational researcher and former elementary school teacher, "Trusting What You Know" reveals what students think about their ...
In this work, Carol Gilligan sets out to create a radical new map of love. Although old patriarchal structures have been challenged, the underlying patterns remain: the channeling of boys into "masculinity"; the anxiety of girls into adolescence, the silences between men and women, the split between our social and our inner voice. In her work with ...
"Watching Momma Die" is a true story telling not only the heartache and sadness but also the hope that takes place as the journey toward the end of life occurs. It is a story that tells of the guts it take to stand beside someone you love, watching, unable to postpone or stop the process of death in the lives of those affected. "Watching Momma ...
En este libro, Carol Gilligan, rebelandose una vez mas contra las tradiciones mas represoras, escribe sobre el amor y las fuerzas que obstaculizan el camino hacia el placer. La autora nos demuestra por que el amor entre un hombre y una mujer soporta con tanta frecuencia el lastre de un perdida y como podemos liberarnos de el para emprender la ...
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