Dr. Carol Gilligan's research in psychology has shown how the inclusion of women and girls' voices changes the paradigm of psychology, opening up new ways of thinking about education and mental health.
She serves in an interdisciplinary position at New York University in 2002, with appointments in the Steinhart School of Education, the School of Law and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. With her students, Gilligan founded the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development and initiated the innovative prevention projects: Strengthening Healthy Resistance and Courage in Girls, and Women Teaching Girls/Girls Teaching Women. Her prevention projects expanded to include boys in the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology, Boys' Development, and The Culture of Manhood.
As the author of several groundbreaking books, including In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development (1982), Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationship (1996, with Jill McLean Taylor and Amy Sullivan) and The Birth of Pleasure (2002), Gilligan challenges common perceptions about human existence and often discovers that the reality is far different from our assumptions.
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