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47 ratings, 3.98 average rating, 14 reviews
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published
2003
by Vintage Uk
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Paperback, 276 pages
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0099459612
(isbn13: 9780099459613)
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A psychologist's fine-tuned ear and a scholar's penchant for illuminating key ideas with precise literary citations enable Carol Gilligan to trace lov...more
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Read in October, 2008
When I saw this on the sale book table, looking very pink and whatnot, I thought "What's that dumb girly book going to be?" But when I saw that Carol Gilligan was the author, I had to pick it up. Carol Gilligan wrote <i>In a Different Voice<i>, which I read in my Development Psychology class in college. I haven't been really moved to dip back into psychology of this sort since but Gilligan has quite a lot of really important stuff to say in this book. I find myself wanting...more
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This is an excellent book on modern culture/psychology/male-female relationships. It takes the Psyche-Cupid myth as its core theme and uses modern psychology, literature, biology, sociology to try to understand why we are often so screwed up in our relationships with ourselves and with others. It has too much in it to cover in a short review, but here are a few memorable pieces:
- Anne Frank's diary has 3 versions, the one she wrote originally in her own voice, a version that she edited after h...more
- Anne Frank's diary has 3 versions, the one she wrote originally in her own voice, a version that she edited after h...more
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yes yes yes yes. a gift from frances, can't wait to get started. only two more weeks until break, yippee!
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Read in March, 2007
recommends it for:
Readers who have secret obsessions with psychology books.
I thought this book was going to be primarily about romantic relationships, but it also had insights applicable to familial relationships, friendships, professional relationships, etc. Gilligan takes a case-study approach to this work and also includes some personal anecdotes and a psychological analysis through the relaying of relevant Greek myths. Overall I think the work could have been more cogent and less cluttered with trumped up sentimentality.
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Carol Gilligan's ability to transition from idea to quote to support was absolutely amazing. This was a near seamless work that absolutely blew my mind. I can't remember half of what she said, but reading it revolutionized my perspectives on relationships and love. What is more important, Love or the Law? Truth or Relationship? Why is love so often a tragedy? A beautiful narrative that I recommend.
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Read in September, 2008
I read this for a class with the author entitled Resisting Injustice. While I enjoyed what Gilligan calls her associative writing style and appreciated what she said about children's indoctrination into patriarchy, I didn't get a lot out of the book itself. I would have given it two stars but for the interesting conversation it provoked in class.
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Read in August, 2008
I can't believe I ate the whole thing! But really, a very timely book, considering my other recent reads (Against Love, A Room of One's Own). Gilligan pulls together work and ideas from multiple disciplines very effectively. It makes sense more now than I think it would have at any other time in my life.
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I love her use of mythology, fiction stories, non-fiction writings, and psychology studies (from the past and present). Instead of writing a text book, she uses these works to tell a story that reveals what the birth of pleasure can be.
It changed the way I look at the world.
It changed the way I look at the world.
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interesting perspective on love: and how boys & girls are conditioned differently w/ social conditions --but also rooted in such deep mythic themes & elements to 'split' from love. interesting perspective on developmental splitting, trauma, dissociation & love and pleasure.
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Read in January, 2003
recommends it for:
feminine theorists
A study of women's pursuit of love and pleasure via the mythology of Eros and Psyche. I think Anne Carson did it better (and more ruthlessly in terms of details) with Eros the Bittersweet.
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This is one of my favorite authors. I've only written two authors fan letters and she is one of them. I recommend both her book highly.
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Read in January, 2004
The best of all of her works that I have read (and I have read many!!)
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