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 ix
... woman to speak for herself and awarded women the deciding voice in a complex matter of relationship which involved responsibility for life and for death , many women became aware of the strength of an internal voice which was ...
... woman to speak for herself and awarded women the deciding voice in a complex matter of relationship which involved responsibility for life and for death , many women became aware of the strength of an internal voice which was ...
Page x
... woman who acts and speaks only for others . Discovering through experience the consequences of not speaking in ... woman's body . Virginia Woolf's realization that she had to strangle this Angel if she were to begin writing illuminates ...
... woman who acts and speaks only for others . Discovering through experience the consequences of not speaking in ... woman's body . Virginia Woolf's realization that she had to strangle this Angel if she were to begin writing illuminates ...
Page xiv
... woman would ask a question that illuminated with sudden brilliance the foundations of the subject we were discussing . And now , remembering those moments , I also can hear the sounds of my own inner division : my saying to the woman ...
... woman would ask a question that illuminated with sudden brilliance the foundations of the subject we were discussing . And now , remembering those moments , I also can hear the sounds of my own inner division : my saying to the woman ...
Page xvii
... woman and therefore can speak on women's behalf and the ethical and political questions : what are the ethics and politics of men speaking for women or creating a feminine voice ? When I have spoken with women about experi- ences of ...
... woman and therefore can speak on women's behalf and the ethical and political questions : what are the ethics and politics of men speaking for women or creating a feminine voice ? When I have spoken with women about experi- ences of ...
Page xviii
... or entail , 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.
... or entail , 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.
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.