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 x
... separation of herself from what she was saying , she began to question her relationship to what she was saying and what she was not saying . For whom was she speaking , and where was she in relation to herself ? In the imme- diate ...
... separation of herself from what she was saying , she began to question her relationship to what she was saying and what she was not saying . For whom was she speaking , and where was she in relation to herself ? In the imme- diate ...
Page xiv
... separation and violence — exemplary stories for men to tell themselves ? The most basic questions about human living — how to live and what to do — are fundamentally questions about human relations , because people's lives are deeply ...
... separation and violence — exemplary stories for men to tell themselves ? The most basic questions about human living — how to live and what to do — are fundamentally questions about human relations , because people's lives are deeply ...
Page xv
... separation . I will begin with voice . The work of Kristin Linklater , one of theater's leading teachers of voice , has led me to a new under- standing of voice and also to a far deeper understanding of my own work . Her analysis of the ...
... separation . I will begin with voice . The work of Kristin Linklater , one of theater's leading teachers of voice , has led me to a new under- standing of voice and also to a far deeper understanding of my own work . Her analysis of the ...
Page xxii
... separations , that began to alter her relationship with herself and to cloud her sense of reality . Misremembering ... separation and connection , justice and care , rights and responsibilities , power and love , takes a new turn when ...
... separations , that began to alter her relationship with herself and to cloud her sense of reality . Misremembering ... separation and connection , justice and care , rights and responsibilities , power and love , takes a new turn when ...
Page xxiii
... Separations and detachments , which previously have been taken as the marks of development in adolescence and presented as psychological facts , no longer seem necessary or inevitable , natural or good . The road back from ...
... Separations and detachments , which previously have been taken as the marks of development in adolescence and presented as psychological facts , no longer seem necessary or inevitable , natural or good . The road back from ...
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.