| Description |
xxx, 184 pages ; 21 cm |
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| Note |
Originally published: 1982. This reprint has a new introduction. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-180) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Letter to readers, 1993 -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Woman's place in man's life cycle -- Images of relationship -- Concepts of self and morality -- Crisis and transition -- Women's rights and women's judgment -- Visions of maturity -- References -- Index of study participants -- General index. |
| Summary |
This is the little book that started a revolution. 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. This book 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. -- Publisher description. |
| Awards |
University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education, 1992. |
| Subject |
Women -- Psychology -- Longitudinal studies.
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Developmental psychology -- Longitudinal studies.
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Moral development -- Longitudinal studies.
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Developmental psychology. (OCoLC)fst00891816
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Moral development. (OCoLC)fst01026046
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Women -- Psychology.
(OCoLC)fst01176894
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| Genre/Form |
Longitudinal studies. (OCoLC)fst01423812
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| Added Title |
Psychological theory and women's development |
| ISBN |
9780674970960 (pbk.) |
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0674970969 (pbk.) |
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0674445449 |
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9780674445444 |
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0674445430 (cloth) |
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9780674445437 |
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