New Books - Spring 2006, List 4

The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of Love
Carol Gilligan
New York: Vintage Books, 2003 (with a new introduction)

Basement BF575.L8 G56 2003
Shelved in New Books first, then at call number location

From Vintage Books:
Carol Gilligan, whose classic In a Different Voice revolutionized the study of human psychology, now offers a brilliant, provocative book about love. Why is love so often associated with tragedy, she asks. Why are our experiences of pleasure so often shadowed by loss? And can we change these patterns?

Gilligan observes children at play and adult couples in therapy and discovers that the roots of a more hopeful view of love are all around us. She finds evidence in new psychological research and traces a path leading from the myth of Psyche and Cupid through Shakespeare’s plays and Freud’s case histories, to Anne Frank’s diaries and contemporary novels. Groundbreaking and immensely readable, The Birth of Pleasure has powerful implications for the way we live and love.

Carol Gilligan is University Professor at the New York University School of Law.

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In a Different Voice:
Psychological Theory and Women's Development
Carol Gilligan
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993 (originally published in 1982, with new introduction)

HQ1206.G58 1993 Basement
Shelved in New Books first, then at call number location

From Harvard University Press:
Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women--their motives, their moral commitments, the course of their psychological growth, and their special view of what is important in life. Here she sets out to correct psychology's misperceptions and refocus its view of female personality. The result is truly a tour de force, which may well reshape much of what psychology now has to say about female experience.

Carol Gilligan is University Professor at the New York University School of Law.

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