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Meeting at the Crossroads Lyn Mikel Brown

Meeting at the Crossroads By Lyn Mikel Brown

Meeting at the Crossroads by Lyn Mikel Brown


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Based on interviews with 100 girls who were negotiating adolescence this book seeks to answer the question: on the way to to womanhood, what does a girl give up? The authors open their method to the reader and share discoveries as they encourage girls at different ages to speak about themselves.

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Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development by Lyn Mikel Brown

On the way to womanhood, what does a girl give up? For five years, Lyn Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan, with this question in mind, listened to 100 girls who were negotiating the rough terrain of adolescence. This book invites the reader to listen, too, to hear in these girls' voices what is rarely spoken, often ignored, and generally misunderstood: how the passage out of girlhood is a journey into silence, disconnection, and dissembling, a troubled crossing that our culture has plotted with dead ends and detours. In the course of their research, Brown and Gilligan developed a Listener's Guide - a method of following the pathways of girls' thoughts and feelings, of distinguishing what girls are saying by the way they say it. Thr reader witnesses the struggle girls undergo as they enter adolescence only to find that what they feel and think and know can no longer be said directly. Readers see them at a cultural impasse, and listen as they make the painful, necessary adjustments, outspokenness giving way to circumspection, self-knowledge to uncertainty, authority to compliance. These changes mark the edge of adolescence as a watershed in women's psychological development, a time of wrenching disjunctions between body and psyche, voice and desire, self and relationship. Brown and Gilligan open their method to the reader and share their discoveries as they encourage girls at different ages to speak about themselves in conversation with women. They follow some of these girls over time, listening to changes in their distinct voices from one year to the next, addressing their successes and failures as they confront one barrier after another.

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CIN0674564642VG
9780674564640
0674564642
Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development by Lyn Mikel Brown
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Harvard University Press
19920101
268
N/A
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