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Carol Gilligan


Carol Gilligan is a psychologist and writer who lives in New York City and in the Berkshires. 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...

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Kyra
Written by Carol Gilligan

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction
978-0-8129-7123-1 (0-8129-7123-X)

June 9, 2009 | $17.50



From the internationally renowned author of In a Different Voice, a remarkable debut novel: a love story that introduces an unforgettable character in modern fiction, Kyra, and a superb new fiction writer, Carol Gilligan. Kyra is an architect designing a new city, a woman of humor and courage living in a...

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Kyra
Written by Carol Gilligan

eBook | pages | Random House | Fiction
978-1-58836-681-8 (1-58836-681-2)

January 15, 2008 | $17.50



An unforgettable novel about love–and the first work of fiction by the author of the groundbreaking nonfiction bestseller In a Different Voice

Kyra is an architect, involved in a project to design a new city. Andreas, a theater director, is staging an innovative production of the opera Tosca. Both have come through...

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Kyra
Written by Carol Gilligan
Read by Justine Eyre and Mark Deakins

Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction
978-0-7393-5940-2 (0-7393-5940-1)

January 15, 2008 | $23.00



An unforgettable novel about love–and the first work of fiction by the author of the groundbreaking nonfiction bestseller In a Different Voice.

Kyra is an architect, involved in a project to design a new city. Andreas, a theater director, is staging an innovative production of the opera Tosca. Both have come through...

Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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The Birth of Pleasure
Written by Carol Gilligan

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage | Psychology & Psychiatry; Social Science
978-0-679-75943-0 (0-679-75943-3)

August 12, 2003 | $18.95



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...

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The Birth of Pleasure
Written by Carol Gilligan

eBook | pages | Knopf | Psychology & Psychiatry; Social Science
978-1-4000-4018-6 (1-4000-4018-3)

September 3, 2002 | $16.95



The long-awaited new book by the world-renowned psychologist whose In a Different Voice, published two decades ago, started an intellectual revolution by showing that theories of human psychology, based on studies of men, had overlooked and distorted basic aspects of the human experience.

Now, in The Birth of Pleasure, Carol Gilligan...

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