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
... violence and domination . In working toward this vision , I feel a profound affinity with the work of Jean Baker Miller and draw inspiration from her radical insight that " women's situation is a crucial key to understanding the ...
... violence and domination . In working toward this vision , I feel a profound affinity with the work of Jean Baker Miller and draw inspiration from her radical insight that " women's situation is a crucial key to understanding the ...
Page xiii
... violence and violation in the name of morality . The different voice in resisting such justifications is a rela- tional voice : a voice that insists on staying in connection and most centrally staying in connection with women , so that ...
... violence and violation in the name of morality . The different voice in resisting such justifications is a rela- tional voice : a voice that insists on staying in connection and most centrally staying in connection with women , so that ...
Page xiv
... 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 connected ...
... 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 connected ...
Page xviii
... , for a woman who loves her children and is living in a racist and violent society — a society damaging to both women and men ? Where I find myself troubled by the current arguments about xviii Letter to Readers , 1993.
... , for a woman who loves her children and is living in a racist and violent society — a society damaging to both women and men ? Where I find myself troubled by the current arguments about xviii Letter to Readers , 1993.
Page xxiv
... enlightened imperial- ism that is at odds with the pervasive evidence of corruption , lethargy , violence , and disease . As he reaches the interior , Marlow learns that Kurtz is dying . And meeting the xxiv Letter to Readers , 1993.
... enlightened imperial- ism that is at odds with the pervasive evidence of corruption , lethargy , violence , and disease . As he reaches the interior , Marlow learns that Kurtz is dying . And meeting the xxiv Letter to Readers , 1993.
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.