Customer Reviews

In a different voice - Carol Gilligan - By: , 03 Jun 2003
This book is truly amazing. For any woman who feels she has lost clarity & fierceness & the ability to tell the truth about how she feels & what is going onin the world of feelings & relationships, the social world which she inhabits, read Gilligan's work (any of it). The book made me remember what it was to learn to be nice & quiet & femininein order to become a 'woman' when as a girl it had been much more OK to be more forthright, & more myself. Interesting bothin terms of looking at the psychology of the world of teenage girls & their lived experience,in terms of engaging with social & psychological research through an engaged methodology of relationship which disturbs the usual authoritarian role of researchers, &in terms of the real & lived effects of gender roles & norms on young girls as they 'become' women, notin theory butin practice. It'll make you long for the freedom of life before you were conforming to the ways of being which are acceptable for 'a woman' & remember the amazing gifts which girls & women have to offer, which end up being hidden away & covered overin order to 'fit in' & which become harder & harder to getin touch with the more they are disavowed & disallowed. Every woman should read it, every girl should read it, every parent should read it, every teacher. Men who find women's lack of assertiveness irritating should read it to find out how women end up that way too... Highly recommended.