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Women’s Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind 10th Anniversary Edition PDF

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Women's Ways of Knowing WOMEN'S WAYS OF KNOWING The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind Mary Field Belenky Blythe McVicker Clinchy Nancy Rule Goldberger Jill Mattuck Tarule i3 BCXX<S A Member of the Perseus Books Group Excerpts from "Unlearning to Not Speak" copyright© 1969, 1971, 1973 by Marge Piercy. Reprinted from Circles on the Water, by Marge Piercy, by pennission of Alfred A. I<nopf, Inc. Copyright © 1986, 1997 by Basic Books Published by Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address Basic Books, 387 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016-8810. First BasicBooks edition published 1986, reissued 1997. Designed by Vincent Torre Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Women's ways of knowing. Bibliographical references: p. 239 Includes index. ISBN 0-465-09099-0 1. Women-United States-Psychology. 2. Women-United States-Education. 3. Self-actualization (Psychology). 4. Feminism-United States. 5. Knowledge, Theory of. I. Belenky, Mary Field. HQ1206.W88 1986 305.4 85-73881 DHSB 05 06 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 Julia, Daphne, Virginia, and Corinne And our daughters ... Alice, Vanessa, Estelle, Uli, Elayne, Jessica, and Shara And our granddaughters ... Sofia, Ella, and Sarah Contents PREFACE TO THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION ix PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION XXV ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxvii Introduction: To the Other Side of Silence 3 PART I THE WAYS OF KNOWING 1 Silence 23 2 Received Knowledge: Listening to the Voices of Others 35 3 Subjective Knowledge: The Inner Voice 52 4 Subjective Knowledge: The Quest for SeJf 76 5 Procedural Knowledge: The Voice of Reason 87 6 Procedural Knowledge: Separate and Connected Knowing 100 7 Constructed Knowledge: Integrating the Voices 131 PART II DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEXT: FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS 8 Family Life and the Politics of Talk 155 9 Toward an Education for Women 190 10 Connected Teaching 214 Appendix A Interview Schedule 231 Appendix B Educational Dialectics 237 REFERENCES 239 INDEX 249

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Despite the progress of the women’s movement, many women still feel silenced in their families and schools. This moving and insightful bestseller, based on in-depth interviews with 135 women, explains why they feel this way. Updated with a new preface exploring how the authors’ collaboration and
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