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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This does (appropriately) feel dated, but I can appreciate the importance of the piece at the time it was written. Still interesting and worth a read.
A quick read and highly recommended. This book is Gilligan's response to years of academic study of moral development that had "just happened" to focus solely on males. Her critique is devastating and it is almost unbelievable that so much work was done with such a clear gender bias. Gilligan sets out a very believable "parallel path" of women's development that, satisfyingly, converges toward the same major issues that men struggle with, but from a different direction. I always like reading books with extensive oral interviews with "regular people", where much of the author's work is simply to allow people to speak for themselves. She is not quite Studs Terkel in this dimension, but I think this is an inspiring piece of qualitative research nonetheless.
I read this my sophomore year of high school, but I remember that it really made me think. I have the book and will go back and read it sometime . . . maybe when I have a daughter. I'm not sure that I agreed with everything from the perspective of being a girl, but there were some things that she expressed that I realized, "yeah, that has happened to me as I've grown up."
Well, I've got to say this was interesting. Like some other reviewers I'm not sure I agree that men and women's psychologies are actually biologically different, but either way it is important to recognize the social pressures and perspectives that the different sexes have. I enjoyed reading the ways in which men and women interpreted stories, found solutions to proposed problems, as well as the ways that children play differently depending on gender. Looking back at the way children act in play situations really tells us a lot about how girls and boys take in society's expectations early on. Whether those expectations are good or bad is beyond the point; the point is, they are there and we are all affected by them at an early age. This affects our whole development and perspective on every aspect of life.
I'd recommend this book to anyone looking to better understand the feminist movement in the 1970-80s or just looking to understand men's and women's psychology a little better.
I'd recommend this book to anyone looking to better understand the feminist movement in the 1970-80s or just looking to understand men's and women's psychology a little better.
In a Different Voice is a short but fairly dense read that I found enjoyable. I read the second edition (beginning with an excerpt of it for class), and I appreciate the incredible move Gilligan made for women in the psychological field. I definitely think her work was very important for the time, and it made a large impact. At the same time, I think to no surprise, I also found her theory incredibly binary, as I think she has herself, seeing that she's recently published a revised third edition. While her thoughts were undoubtedly necessary for the time, her revision for the current day was definitely necessary. Otherwise, I'm a big fan of her writing style and the way she describes her experiments, if not a little worried about the tiny sample sizes of her studies haha. Still very enjoyable, and I got through it pretty quickly.
