“Our ability to love and to live with a sense of psychic wholeness hinges on our ability to resist wedding ourselves to the gender binaries of patriarchy,” writes Carol Gilligan. In Joining the Resistance (Polity Books), Gilligan, an NYU University professor and Steinhardt professor of applied psychology, reflects on a lifetime of creative process and the evolution of her thinking about gender and human development. The author of In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development (Harvard, 1982), Gilligan’s work on girls’ psychic development laid the groundwork for a new understanding of female development.
Learn more about Carol Gilligan’s work in In Studies Across Disciplines, Social Scientists Challenge Deeply Held Beliefs about Gender.