In a Human Voice

A TLS Book of the Year 2023
 
"essential reading for our time"
--Times Literary Supplement
 
"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."
--Gloria Steinem
 
"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."
--Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, author of Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
 
"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."
--The New Statesman