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 xi
... interviewed— the women whose voices are recorded in the third and fourth chapters of this book . Writing twenty years later , he also is struck by what at the time I found so striking : the difference between these women's voices and ...
... interviewed— the women whose voices are recorded in the third and fourth chapters of this book . Writing twenty years later , he also is struck by what at the time I found so striking : the difference between these women's voices and ...
Page xxi
... interviewed Amy knew that her responses to the questions she was asked would result in her being assessed as not very ... interview at fifteen caught her in the midst of an active process of dissociation , of knowing and then not knowing ...
... interviewed Amy knew that her responses to the questions she was asked would result in her being assessed as not very ... interview at fifteen caught her in the midst of an active process of dissociation , of knowing and then not knowing ...
Page xxix
... interviews were conducted by them ; many of the ideas arose in discussions we had . The design of the studies reflects their contribution ; the completion of the research , their commitment and hard work . Michael Basseches , Suzie ...
... interviews were conducted by them ; many of the ideas arose in discussions we had . The design of the studies reflects their contribution ; the completion of the research , their commitment and hard work . Michael Basseches , Suzie ...
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... interviews and included the same set of questions — about conceptions of self and morality , about experiences of conflict and choice . The method of interview- ing was to follow the language and the logic of the person's thought , with ...
... interviews and included the same set of questions — about conceptions of self and morality , about experiences of conflict and choice . The method of interview- ing was to follow the language and the logic of the person's thought , with ...
Page 3
... interviewed as seniors . The abortion decision study considered the relation between ex- perience and thought and the ... interview data were avail- able for twenty - four , and of these twenty - four , twenty - one were in- terviewed ...
... interviewed as seniors . The abortion decision study considered the relation between ex- perience and thought and the ... interview data were avail- able for twenty - four , and of these twenty - four , twenty - one were in- terviewed ...
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.