In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development by Carol Gilligan, Gilligan

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  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Pub. Date: January 1993
  • ISBN-13: 9780674445444
  • Sales Rank: 32,178
  • 216pp
  • Edition Description: REV
 
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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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Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women. Repeatedly, developmental theories have been built on observations of men's lives. Here, Gilligan attempts to correct psychology's misperceptions and refocus its view of female personality. The result reshapes our understanding of human experience.

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In her book In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan demonstrates that men and women speak in 'different voices.' Through research, Gilligan has found that psychological development theories repeatedly have been built on observations of men’s lives, thus creating misperceptions of women.

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Carol Gilligan is University Professor at the New York University School of Law.

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In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Developmentby Anonymous

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May 11, 2006: In order to really enjoy reading Carol Gilligan?s novel In a Different Voice, you must do a couple of things. First you should be knowledgeable of the accepted moral development theories. Secondly you should be interested in the field of moral development. The threading of opinion and previous research is difficult to follow, and at times Gilligan?s voice is hard to decipher. Furthermore, it is important to note that the examples used by Gilligan to confirm her own moral ladder seem to fit her needs a bit too closely. I could make up my own moral development ladder if I asked the right questions to the right people. While it is true that the voice of women in the making of the generally accepted theory by Kohlberg is lacking, Gilligan?s research is not clear-cut enough for me to establish a new ladder for only women. Gilligan?s research is founded on the fact that Kohlberg used only white men for his studies, but in Gilligan?s significant studies she uses only females. I cannot accept either ladder as a general ladder to apply to all, but I do agree with the fact that men and women think differently and reach different moral steps and different times. At least by reading Gilligan?s work I woke up to the fact that Kolhberg?s moral ladder is heavily biased.

In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Developmentby Anonymous

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May 20, 2001: gilligan cogently challenges the concept of an absolute morality, which often excludes the views of women and fails to address their reality. she proposes a distinction between 'female' and 'male' moralities, and identifies the complementarity of the two. she avoids polarizing the different views into 'right' and 'wrong' or 'better' and 'worse,' and addresses both positions with a fairness and balance that is striking. her ideas are strong and clearly deviate from those of her mentor lawrence kohlberg; however, she builds consensus instead of conflict. in writing this book, she displays the very ideal she is trying to describe. her work has dramatically changed my understanding of myself and my female patients.


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