Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Part 1 17
The Puzzle 17
The First Clue: An Association to Loss 25
Resistance 32
Loss 45
The Three Discoveries 72
A Summary 89
Part 2 91
Knowing This, Then What? 91
Finding Resonance, Repairing Ruptures 119
Leaving Patriarchy 121
Where Then Do We Stand? 134
Notes 146
Index 160
Carol Gilligan is Professor of Humanities and Applied
Psychology at New York University and the author of In a
Different Voice, one of the most influential feminist books of all
time.
Naomi Snider is a Research Fellow at New York
University.
“Taking on the long brewing battle between true democracy and the
pervasive ‘ghost’ of patriarchy, this compact book exists in a
category of its own. The voices of its authors are accessible,
incisive and engaging—the perfect book to launch almost any
conversation about our current messy psycho-political times.”
Jill Gentile, author, Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and
the Voice of Desire “An original and powerful analysis of
patriarchy; there is a freshness and vitality to the authors’
approach. Why Does Patriarchy Persist? should be
compulsory reading in every discipline from law to literature, for
it offers a framework in which numerous dilemmas, both practical
and psychological, might be resolved.”
Terri Apter, Newnham College, Cambridge
"There are books that do what they set out to do: they make their
points clearly, they argue something new, they uncover something
for us. Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider’s new book, Why Does
Patriarchy Persist?, does more than that. It is a spark. It
is something like a book-length speech act, both illocutionary and
perlocutionary: in speaking, the authors bring their thesis into
being, and with it a host of possibilities come alive within us. As
we read, we believe intimately that what they say is so. We feel it
and see it in our own lives; it cannot but leap up within us."
The Public Seminar
"Dr. Gilligan’s writing may frustrate because of its swirl of
literary, personal and clinical anecdotes. There can be tangles and
snarls of language. You might get lost in its allusions and
references, particularly if you’re not up-to-date on your
Sophocles, Old Testament tales or Woolf. But her voice on the page
is as it is in real life: warm and inviting. Democracy, she said,
is like love. It only works if everyone has a voice. Dr. Gilligan’s
new book continues to try and universalize the intimate."
New York Times
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