CAROL GILLIGAN is a psychologist and writer and her ground-breaking book, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory’ and Women’s Development, has been translated into eighteen languages. With her students, she co-authored and co-edited four books on women’s psychology and girls’ development: Meeting at the Crossroads, Between Voice and Silence, Making Connections, and Women, Girls, and Psychotherapy: Reframing Resistance. At Harvard, where she was the first Graham Professor of Gender Studies, her award-winning research led to the founding of the university’s Center on Gender and Education. She is now University Professor at New York University and lives with her husband in New York City and the Berkshires.
“Compelling . . . a thrilling new paradigm.” —The Times Literary
Supplement
“Here is human connection thoughtfully considered by one of our
finest psychological and social observers. This book tells of the
ways we seek companionship and love, the ways we affirm others,
thereby finding ourselves, our hopes and aspirations.” —Robert
Coles
“Gilligan has woven a tapestry of memories, myths and reflections
that spirals like a shell and is structured like a dream but at its
heart vanishes into the mystery of love . . . no small
accomplishment.” —Elle
“[Gilligan] writes lyrically as she weaves myth and literature,
interview and memoir.” —The Boston Phoenix
“An elegant and powerful narrative that runs through mythology,
memoir and literature.” —The Boston Globe
“Why has the love story in Western culture long assumed that
pleasure leads to death, that love leads to loss? Carol Gilligan,
in this brilliantly written book, explores the history of these
associations, then traces the roots of an alternate narrative and
draws a map to send us on our way. This is a wonderful book!”
—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
“An original and elegant inquiry, a fine weave of vivid case
studies of ‘couples in crisis’ and brilliant literary analysis.”
—Booklist
“Here is human connection thoughtfully considered by one of our
finest psychological and social observers. This book tells of the
ways we seek companionship and love, the ways we affirm others,
thereby finding ourselves, our hopes and aspirations.” —Robert
Coles
“It does no less than reconfigure what it might mean to love and be
loved, a revolutionary act in itself.” —Eve Ensler, author of The
Vagina Monologues
“An intellectual tour de force.... a provocative liberal education
between covers.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Carol Gilligan suggests that the acknowledgment of pleasure is a
part of our authenticity and essential to truth telling. How
refreshing to imagine that authenticity and honesty are as much
about feeling good as the opposite.” —Anna Deavere Smith
“[Gilligan’s] mastery of literary sources and her intelligent but
nonacademic writing make this an enjoyable, challenging work.”
—Publishers Weekly
“The Birth of Pleasure is reminiscent of Freud’s Civilization and
Its Discontents—but with one striking difference. Where Freud sees
tragedy as inescapable (symbolized for him by the Oedipus myth),
Gilligan sees a history of psychologically driven resistance, as
manifested in the myth of Psyche and Cupid.” —Psychotherapy
Networker
“A revolutionary book that will transform our beliefs about love,
pleasure, human possibility, and ourselves. Carol Gilligan is a
thinker and prophet of luminous grace, courage, and compassion.”
—Catharine Stimpson, University Professor and Dean, Graduate School
of Arts and Science, New York University
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