The Birth of Pleasure
A New Map of Love
The author of the classic In a Different Voice offers a brilliant, provocative book about love that has powerful implications for the way we live and love today.
“Compelling ... A thrilling new paradigm.” —The Times Literary Supplement
Carol Gilligan, whose In a Different Voice revolutionized the study of human psychology, now asks: Why is love so often associated with tragedy? Why are our experiences of pleasure so often shadowed by loss? And can we change these patterns?
Gilligan observes children at play and adult couples in therapy and discovers that the roots of a more hopeful view of love are all around us. She finds evidence in new psychological research…
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August 12, 2003Carol Gilligan is a psychologist and writer, and her groundbreaking book In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development has been translated into 18 languages. With her students, she coauthored and coedited four books on women's psychology and girls' development: Meeting at the Crossroads, Between Voice and Silence, Making Connections, and Women, Girls, and Psychotherapy: Reframing Resistance. At Harvard University, where she was the first Graham Professor of Gender Studies, her award-winning research led to the founding of the university's Center on Gender and Education. She is now University Professor at New York University and lives with her husband in New York City and the Berkshires.
In a Different Voice
Carol Gilligan
Kyra
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The Birth of Pleasure
Carol Gilligan
Making Connections
Carol Gilligan