Joining the Resistance (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Polity Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2011
First published:	May 2011
Authors:	Carol Gilligan
Dimensions:	225 x 145 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-7456-5169-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	0-7456-5169-0
Barcode:	9780745651699

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