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Joining the Resistance

ISBN: 978-0-745-66345-6

May 2013

Polity

208 pages

Description
Since the publication of her landmark book In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan has transformed the way we think about women and men and the relations between them. It was ‘the little book that started a revolution’, and with more than 800,000 copies in print it has become one of the most widely read and influential books ever written on gender and human development.

In her new book Joining the Resistance Carol Gilligan reflects on the evolution of her thinking and shows how her key ideas were interwoven with her own life experiences. Her work began with the question of voice: who is speaking to whom, in what body, telling what stories about which relationships? By listening carefully she heard a voice that had been held in silence, and in the process realized the extent to which we – both women and men – had been telling false stories about ourselves.

In her subsequent work Gilligan found that adolescent girls resisted pressures to disengage themselves from their honest voices, and by joining their resistance she opened the way for the development of a more humane way of thinking about personal and political relationships. For the central conviction of her work today – and the central thesis of this book – is that the requisites for love and the requisites for citizenship in a democratic society are one and the same. Both voice and the desire to live in relationships inherent in our human nature, together with the capacity to resist false authority.

Combining autobiographical reflection with an analysis of key questions about gender and human development, this timely and highly readable book by one of America’s greatest contemporary thinkers will appeal to a wide readership.

About the Author
CAROL GILLIGAN is a university professor at New York University and author of In a Different Voice among other works. She was named by Time Magazine as one of the 25 most influential Americans.
Features
  • Carol Gilligan is one of the most well-known and influential feminist scholars in the world today. of her landmark book In A Different Voice sold over 800,000 copies and is one of the most widely read books every written on gender and human development.
  • In this new book Gilligan reflects on the evolution of her thinking and shows how her key ideas were interwoven with her own life experiences. She explains how she came to develop her views on the ethics of care and how her subsequent work on adolescent girls opened the way for the development of a more humane way of thinking about personal and political relationships.
  • Gilligan argues that the requisites for love and the requisites for citizenship in a democratic society are one and the same. Both voice and the desire to live in relationships inhere in our human nature, together with the capacity to resist false authority.
  • Combining autobiographical reflection with an analysis of key questions about gender and human development, this highly readable book by one of America’s greatest contemporary thinkers will appeal to appeal to students of feminism, gender studies and psychology and to a wide general readership.