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Meeting at the Crossroads: Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development Hardcover – January 28, 1992
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On the way to womanhood, what does a girl give up? For five years, Lyn Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan, asking this question, listened to one hundred girls who were negotiating the rough terrain of adolescence. This book invites us to listen, too, and to hear in these girls' voices what is rarely spoken, often ignored, and generally misunderstood: how the passage out of girlhood is a journey into silence, disconnection, and dissembling, a troubled crossing that our culture has plotted with dead ends and detours.
In the course of their research, Brown and Gilligan developed a Listener's Guide - a method of following the pathways of girls' thoughts and feelings, of distinguishing what girls are saying by the way they say it. We witness the struggle girls undergo as they enter adolescence only to find that what they feel and think and know can no longer be said directly. We see them at a cultural impasse, and listen as they make the painful, necessary adjustments, outspokenness giving way to circumspection, self-knowledge to uncertainty, authority to compliance. These changes mark the edge of adolescence as a watershed in women's psychological development, a time of wrenching disjunctions between body and psyche, voice and desire, self and relationship. Brown and Gilligan open their method to us and share their discoveries as they encourage girls at different ages to speak about themselves in conversation with women. They follow some of these girls over time, listening to changes in their distinct voices from one year to the next, addressing their successes and failures as they confront one barrier after another.
This groundbreaking work offers major new insights into girls' development and women's psychology. But perhaps more importantly, it provides women with the means of meeting girls at the critical crossroads of adolescence, of harkening to the voices of girlhood and sustaining their sell-affirming notes.
- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarvard University Press
- Publication dateJanuary 28, 1992
- Dimensions6.25 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
- ISBN-100674564642
- ISBN-13978-0674564640
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Carol Gilligan is University Professor at the New York University School of Law.
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- Publisher : Harvard University Press; 1st edition (January 28, 1992)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0674564642
- ISBN-13 : 978-0674564640
- Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,584,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #8,598 in Popular Psychology Counseling
- #10,361 in General Gender Studies
- #22,055 in Medical General Psychology
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Lyn Mikel Brown has been studying and working with girls for more than twenty-five years. A professor of education and human development at Colby College, she is the author of five previous books about gender and girlhood, and is the cofounder of three grassroots organizations: SPARK Movement, Powered By Girl, and Hardy Girls Healthy Women.
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I am not happy I now have sticker residue on the spine of the book (from the large round 10% off sticker). Nor am I happy that there is a "this book belongs to" sticker stuck over the synopsis of the book on the inside cover. I can't remove that sticker without destroying the page.
The plastic wrap makes no sense! It is not a new book by any stretch.
Cover did not match the advertised cover.