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

By Carol Gilligan

Book information

Year
1993
ISBN
0674445449, 9780674445444, 0674445430, 9780674445437
ASIN
B000RITFUG
LCC
HQ1206 .G58 1993
Open Library ID
OL1044342M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11641801 bytes)
Edition
29th printing
Pages
216\217
Topic
Psychology
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This is the little book that started a revolution. First published almost twenty years ago, it made 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 three-quarters of a million 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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