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Carol Gilligan

    November 28, 1936
    The Birth Of Pleasure
    That Moment When
    In a Different Voice
    In a different voice : psychological theory and women's development
    Darkness Now Visible
    The deepening darkness : patriarchy, resistance, and democracy's future
    • 2023

      Carol Gilligan’s landmark book In a Different Voice – the “little book that started a revolution” – brought women’s voices to the fore in work on the self and moral development, enabling women to be heard in their own right, and with their own integrity, for the first time. Forty years later, Carol Gilligan now returns to the subject matter of her classic book, re-examining its central arguments and concerns from the vantage point of the present. Thanks to the work that she and others have done in recent decades, it is now possible to clarify and articulate what couldn’t quite be seen or said at the time of the original publication: that the “different voice” (the voice of care ethics), although initially heard as a “feminine” voice, is in fact a human voice; that the voice it differs from is a patriarchal voice (bound to gender binaries and hierarchies); and that where patriarchy is in force or enforced, the human voice is a voice of resistance, and care ethics is an ethics of liberation. While gender is central to the story Gilligan tells, it is not a story about gender: it is a human story. With this clarification, it becomes evident why In a Different Voice continues to resonate strongly with people’s experience and, perhaps more crucially, why the different voice is a voice for the 21st century.

      In a Human Voice
    • 2021

      Come on my journey. Look at where man's come from. I was working in retail in 2017. You might know Mo as the critically acclaimed stand-up comedian, BAFTA-winning presenter, Masked Singer judge and social media mega star. But do you know the moments that really made him? Opening up on the turning points, the good times, the challenges and the lessons learned, this is Mo as you've never seen him before. Journeying through childhood memories in South London, Mo reminisces about school days and old-school raving, and takes us behind the scenes of his first comedy gigs, the creation of the original Geezer, selling out national tours and becoming one of TV's most in-demand stars. Share the moment that Mo decided he wanted to be a comedian, the moment he went viral, the moment he realised he was famous (and how to deal with it), the moment his Netflix special dropped, the moment he won his BAFTA and the moments he still has to come. In among the laugh-out-loud observations, life lessons and candid storytelling, there lies the bigger influences in Mo's life - the unsung heroes of the Black British comedy scene, the power of community and the feel-good legacy he wants to create. 'The Funniest Man in Britain' The Times

      That Moment When
    • 2018

      Why Does Patriarchy Persist?

      • 120 pages
      • 5 hours of reading
      3.6(23)Add rating

      The election of an unabashedly patriarchal man as US President was a shock for many—despite decades of activism on gender inequalities and equal rights, how could it come to this? What is it about patriarchy that seems to make it so resilient and resistant to change? Undoubtedly it endures in part because some people benefit from the unequal advantages it confers. But is that enough to explain its stubborn persistence? In this highly original and persuasively argued book, Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider put forward a different view: they argue that patriarchy persists because it serves a psychological function. By requiring us to sacrifice love for the sake of hierarchy, patriarchy protects us from the vulnerability of loving and becomes a defense against loss. Uncovering the powerful psychological mechanisms that underpin patriarchy, the authors show how forces beyond our awareness may be driving a politics that otherwise seems inexplicable.

      Why Does Patriarchy Persist?
    • 2018

      Darkness Now Visible

      • 172 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      4.0(26)Add rating

      Darkness Now Visible addresses readers who are concerned about the future of democracy in the US and elsewhere. This book offers a bold and original thesis and explains why feminism, joining men and women, is the key to resistance.

      Darkness Now Visible
    • 2016

      In a Different Voice

      • 216 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.9(23)Add rating

      This is the little book that started a revolution. Published over thirty years ago, in twenty-one languages, In a Different Voice made women’s voices heard for the first time in social scientific theorizing. Carol Gilligan’s work and words inspired new research and stirred political debate that continues, unstifled, in our own time.

      In a Different Voice
    • 2014

      When Boys Become Boys

      • 242 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.6(39)Add rating

      Based on a two-year study of boys aged four to six, this book offers a new way of thinking about boys' development. It provides insight into ways in which adults can foster boys' healthy resistance and help them to access a broader range of options for expressing themselves.

      When Boys Become Boys
    • 2013

      The Deepening Darkness

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Exploring the intricate relationship between love and violence within a patriarchal framework, this analysis reveals how these dynamics pose significant threats to the future of democracy. It delves into the societal structures that perpetuate these issues, offering insights into their implications for personal and political realms. Through this lens, the book highlights the urgent need to address these challenges to foster a more equitable and democratic society.

      The Deepening Darkness
    • 2009

      Kyra

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      From the internationally renowned author of In a Different Voice, a remarkable debut novel: a love story that introduces an unforgettable character in modern fiction, Kyra, and a superb new fiction writer, Carol Gilligan. Kyra is an architect designing a new city, a woman of humor and courage living in a vibrant world of family, friends, and colleagues and determined to break out of old structures. When she meets Andreas, a director staging an innovative production of Tosca, neither wants to fall in love–and yet, inevitably, they do. Their story takes us from Cambridge and an island off the coast of Massachusetts to Vienna, Thailand, Cyprus, and Wales as Kyra seeks the deepest truths about herself, other people, loyalty, and love. This reaching leads her to commit singular acts that startle and shock, inspiring new freedom for others as well as for Kyra herself. Rich with Carol Gilligan’s signature gifts–emotional wisdom, subtle renderings of the intricacies of human relationship, conflict and choice, and lyrical prose–Kyra is a luminous, magnificent novel by a writer realizing the range of her powers.

      Kyra
    • 2009

      Why is America again unjustly at war? Why is its politics distorted by wedge issues like abortion and gay marriage? Why is anti-Semitism still so powerfully resurgent? Such contradictions within democracies arise from a patriarchal psychology still alive in our personal and political lives in tension with the equal voice that is the basis of democracy. The book joins a psychological approach with a political-theoretical one that traces both this psychology (based on loss in intimate life) and resistance to it (based on the love of equals) to the Roman Republic and Empire and to three Latin masterpieces: Virgil's Aeneid, Apuleius's The Golden Ass, and Augustine's Confessions. Democratic resistance in religion, psychology, the arts, and politics rests on free voices challenging patriarchal restrictions on the love of equals. In addition to examining why we are at war, this book explains many other aspects of our present situation including why movements of ethical resistance are often accompanied by a freeing of sexuality and why we are witnessing an aggressive fundamentalism at home and abroad.

      The deepening darkness : patriarchy, resistance, and democracy's future