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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Letter to Readers, 1993 -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle -- 2 Images of Relationship -- 3 Concepts of Self and Morality -- 4 Crisis and Transition -- 5 Women's Rights and Women's Judgment -- 6 Visions of Maturity -- References -- Index of Study Participants -- General Index

Since the publication of her landmark book In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan has transformed the way we think about women and men and the relations between them. It was 'the little book that started a revolution', and with more than 800,000 copies in print it has become one of the most widely read and influential books ever written on gender and human development.In her new book Joining the ResistanceCarol Gilligan reflects on the evolution of her thinking and shows how her key ideas were interwoven with her own life experiences. Her work began with the question of voice: who is speaking to whom, in what body, telling what stories about which relationships? By listening carefully she heard a voice that had been held in silence, and in the process realized the extent to which we – both women and men – had been telling false stories about ourselves.In her subsequent work Gilligan found that adolescent girls resisted pressures to disengage themselves from their honest voices, and by joining their resistance she opened the way for the development of a more humane way of thinking about personal and political relationships. For the central conviction of her work today – and the central thesis of this book – is that the requisites for love and the requisites for citizenship in a democratic society are one and the same. Both voice and the desire to live in relationships inherent in our human nature, together with the capacity to resist false authority.Combining autobiographical reflection with an analysis of key questions about gender and human development, this timely and highly readable book by one of America's greatest contemporary thinkers will appeal to a wide readership.

Résumé Dans cet entretien inédit, Carol Gilligan revient sur les enjeux de son livre Une voix différente , republié en France en 2008. Son projet était de faire entendre la voix morale des femmes, ce qui pouvait faire émerger aussi une voix étouffée des hommes. Si l'éthique du care en soi n'est pas féminine, mais relève de préoccupations humaines, elle ne peut devenir l'éthique de tous qu'au prix d'une critique féministe pour libérer la démocratie des dichotomies et des hiérarchies du genre. Le patriarcat demeure ainsi un concept politique-clé dans la lutte contre les inégalités.

Hearing the difference between a patriarchal voice and a relational voice defines a paradigm shift: a change in the conception of the human world. Theorizing connection as primary and fundamental in human life leads to a new psychology, which shifts the grounds for philosophy and political theory. A crucial distinction is made between a feminine ethic of care and a feminist ethic of care. Voice, relationship, resistance, and women become central rather than peripheral in this reframing of the human world.