RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 431
OP 446
DO 10.17763/haer.49.4.h136573541l3g463
VO 49
IS 4
A1 Gilligan, Carol
YR 1979
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/49/4/431.abstract
AB Drawing on literary and psychological sources, Carol Gilligan documents the way in which theories of the life cycle, by taking for their model the lives of men, have failed to account for the experience of women. Arguing that this bias has promoted a concern with autonomy and achievement at the expense of attachment and intimacy, she suggests that systematic attention to women's lives, in both theory and research, will allow an integration of these concerns into a more balanced conception of human development.