In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development

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Harvard University Press, Jul 1, 1993 - Psychology - 216 pages
This 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.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 Womans Place in Mans Life Cycle
5
2 Images of Relationship
24
3 Concepts of Self and Morality
64
4 Crisis and Transition
106
5 Womens Rights and Womens Judgment
128
6 Visions of Maturity
151
References
177
Index of Study Participants
181
General Index
182
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Carol Gilligan is University Professor at the New York University School of Law.

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