Meeting at the Crossroads - Softcover

Carol Gilligan; Lyn Mikel Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345382951 ISBN 13: 9780345382955

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1993

Synopsis

"Should sound a national alert to society that even our most privileged girls still pursue normal femininity at great risk to personal and civic health."
THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
Lyn Mike Brown and Carol Gilligan ask "What, on the way to womanhood, does a girl give up?" One hundred girls gave voice to what is rarely spoken and often ignored: that the passage out of girlhood is a journey into silence and disconnection, a troubled crossing when a girl loses a firm sense of self and becomes tentative and unsure. These changes mark the endge of adolescence as a watershed in women's psychological development and the stories the girls tell are by turns heartrending and courageous. Listening to these girls provides us with the means of reaching out to them at this critical time, and of better understanding what we as women and men may have left behind at our own crossroads.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

About this title

About the Author:

Lyn Mikel Brown is Associate Professor of Education and Human Development at Colby College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0345382951
• ISBN 13: 9780345382955
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258