{"product_id":"in-a-human-voice-paperback-softback-9781509556793","title":"In a Human Voice (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509556793","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIn a Human Voice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarol Gilligan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509556793, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 September 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e131 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.3 x 13.7 x 1 cm, 0.181 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"essential reading for our time\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Having helped the modern world to hear female voices, Carol Gilligan now takes the next step of helping us to hear a voice that is truly unified and human.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eGloria Steinem\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Equipped with a psychologist's queries and a novelist's sensibilities, Gilligan invites her readers to accompany her on a revelatory journey. She shows us that, far from being distinctively feminine, 'relational capacities such as empathy and emotional intelligence' are actually universal human potentials, waiting to be set free from patriarchal matrices. A beautiful experience.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSarah Blaffer Hrdy, author of \u003ci\u003eMothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"It is rare for anyone with a public platform to revisit old work and openly admit they were wrong. It is rarer still in academia where the tendency... is for a 'selection bias': to publish evidence that backs up a pre-proposed thesis. But given what Gilligan came up against in the early days of her career, she cannot see herself working any other way.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"As a testament to its message, \u003ci\u003eIn a Human Voice\u003c\/i\u003e speaks to both the mind and the heart, and it helps us hear more clearly the human voice in ourselves and others. If people are willing to listen, it could well be another landmark work, as \u003ci\u003eIn a Different Voice\u003c\/i\u003e has been for four decades.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeace \u0026amp; Change: A Journal of Peace Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eCarol Gilligan's landmark book \u003ci\u003eIn a Different Voice\u003c\/i\u003e – the \"little book that started a revolution\" – brought women's voices to the fore in work on the self and moral development, enabling women to be heard in their own right, and with their own integrity, for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForty years later, Gilligan returns to the subject matter of her classic book, re-examining its central arguments and concerns from the vantage point of the present. Thanks to the work that she and others have done in recent decades, it is now possible to clarify and articulate what couldn't quite be seen or said at the time of the original publication: that the \"different voice\" (of care ethics), although initially heard as a \"feminine\" voice, is in fact a human voice; that the voice it differs from is a patriarchal voice (bound to gender binaries and hierarchies); and that where patriarchy is in force or enforced, the human voice is a voice of resistance, and care ethics is an ethics of liberation. While gender is central to the story Gilligan tells, this is not a story about gender: it is a human story.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith this clarification, it becomes evident why \u003ci\u003eIn a Different Voice\u003c\/i\u003e continues to resonate strongly with people's experience and, perhaps more crucially, why the different voice is a voice for the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Women’s Voices and Women’s Silences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Why Nobody Talks about the Abortion Decisions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3:  Enter Eve\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Moral Injury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: In a Different Voice: Act II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: The Ethic of Care\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52453503631640,"sku":"9781509556793","price":10.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509556793.jpg?v=1785285341","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/in-a-human-voice-paperback-softback-9781509556793","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}