Joining the Resistance
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Joining the Resistance

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eBook - ePub

Joining the Resistance

About this book

Since the publication of her landmark book In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan has transformed the way we think about women and men and the relations between them. It was 'the little book that started a revolution', and with more than 800,000 copies in print it has become one of the most widely read and influential books ever written on gender and human development.

In her new book Joining the Resistance Carol Gilligan reflects on the evolution of her thinking and shows how her key ideas were interwoven with her own life experiences. Her work began with the question of voice: who is speaking to whom, in what body, telling what stories about which relationships? By listening carefully she heard a voice that had been held in silence, and in the process realized the extent to which we – both women and men – had been telling false stories about ourselves.

In her subsequent work Gilligan found that adolescent girls resisted pressures to disengage themselves from their honest voices, and by joining their resistance she opened the way for the development of a more humane way of thinking about personal and political relationships. For the central conviction of her work today – and the central thesis of this book – is that the requisites for love and the requisites for citizenship in a democratic society are one and the same. Both voice and the desire to live in relationships inherent in our human nature, together with the capacity to resist false authority.

Combining autobiographical reflection with an analysis of key questions about gender and human development, this timely and highly readable book by one of America's greatest contemporary thinkers will appeal to a wide readership.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. HalfTitle
  3. TitlePage
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraphy
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Looking Back to Look Forward: Revisiting In a Different Voice
  10. 2 Where Have We Come From and Where Are We Going?
  11. 3 Free Association and the Grand Inquisitor: A Psychoanalytic Drama
  12. 4 Identifying the Resistance
  13. 5 Resisting Injustice: A Feminist Ethic of Care
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. References