In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s DevelopmentThis is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate and continues to this day, in the academic world and beyond. Translated into sixteen languages, with more than 700,000 copies sold around the world, In a Different Voice has inspired new research, new educational initiatives, and political debate—and helped many women and men to see themselves and each other in a different light.Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women—their motives, their moral commitments, the course of their psychological growth, and their special view of what is important in life. Here she sets out to correct psychology's misperceptions and refocus its view of female personality. The result is truly a tour de force, which may well reshape much of what psychology now has to say about female experience. |
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Page xii
... Girls . We formed this project to connect women's psychology with girls ' voices and to develop a new voice for psychology — to " find new words and create new methods , " as Virginia Woolf put it in the 1930s , expressing the hope that ...
... Girls . We formed this project to connect women's psychology with girls ' voices and to develop a new voice for psychology — to " find new words and create new methods , " as Virginia Woolf put it in the 1930s , expressing the hope that ...
Page xx
... girls in girls ' schools and to girls and boys in coeducational schools and after - school clubs . Once we found ourselves at home in the halls of adolescence , we moved with some measure of confidence and with new questions into the ...
... girls in girls ' schools and to girls and boys in coeducational schools and after - school clubs . Once we found ourselves at home in the halls of adolescence , we moved with some measure of confidence and with new questions into the ...
Page xxi
... girls , their determination to speak truthfully , and their keen desire to remain in relationship . At the same time , we began to witness girls edging toward relinquishing what they know and what they have held fast to , as they come ...
... girls , their determination to speak truthfully , and their keen desire to remain in relationship . At the same time , we began to witness girls edging toward relinquishing what they know and what they have held fast to , as they come ...
Page xxii
... girls in adolescence , led my colleague Annie Rogers to speak of girls ' losing their " ordinary courage , " or finding that what had seemed ordinary — having a voice and being in relationship — had now become extraordinary , something ...
... girls in adolescence , led my colleague Annie Rogers to speak of girls ' losing their " ordinary courage , " or finding that what had seemed ordinary — having a voice and being in relationship — had now become extraordinary , something ...
Page xxiii
... girls ' resistance . Girls struggle against losing voice and against creating an inner division or split , so that large parts of themselves are kept out of relationship . Because girls ' resistance to culturally mandated separations ...
... girls ' resistance . Girls struggle against losing voice and against creating an inner division or split , so that large parts of themselves are kept out of relationship . Because girls ' resistance to culturally mandated separations ...
Contents
Womans Place in Mans Life Cycle | 5 |
Images of Relationship | 24 |
Concepts of Self and Morality | 64 |
Crisis and Transition | 106 |
Womens Rights and Womens Judgment | 128 |
Visions of Maturity | 151 |
References | 177 |
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Page xxv - I heard a light sigh and then my heart stood still, stopped dead short by an exulting and terrible cry, b,y the cry of inconceivable triumph and of unspeakable pain. 'I knew it — I was sure!
Page 1 - The disparity between women's experience and the representation of human development, noted throughout the psychological literature, has generally been seen to signify a problem in women's development. Instead, the failure of women to fit existing models of human growth may point to a problem in the representation, a limitation in the conception of human condition, an omission of certain truths about life
Page 2 - But this association is not absolute, and the contrasts between male and female voices are presented here to highlight a distinction between two modes of thought and to focus a problem of interpretation rather than to represent a generalization about either sex.