The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of Love

The author of the classic In a Different Voice offers a brilliant, provocative book about love that has powerful implications for the way we live and love today.

"Compelling ... A thrilling new paradigm." --The Times Literary Supplement

Carol Gilligan, whose In a Different Voice revolutionized the study of human psychology, now asks: Why is love so often associated with tragedy? Why are our experiences of pleasure so often shadowed by loss? And can we change these patterns?

Gilligan observes children at play and adult couples in therapy and discovers that the roots of a more hopeful view of love are all around us. She finds evidence in new psychological research and traces a path leading from the myth of Psyche and Cupid through Shakespeare's plays and Freud's case histories, to Anne Frank's diaries and contemporary novels.

Author: Carol Gilligan
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 08/12/2003
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.20w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780679759430

About the Author
CAROL GILLIGAN is a psychologist and writer and her ground-breaking book, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory' and Women's Development, has been translated into eighteen languages. With her students, she co-authored and co-edited four books on women's psychology and girls' development: Meeting at the Crossroads, Between Voice and Silence, Making Connections, and Women, Girls, and Psychotherapy: Reframing Resistance. At Harvard, where she was the first Graham Professor of Gender Studies, her award-winning research led to the founding of the university's Center on Gender and Education. She is now University Professor at New York University and lives with her husband in New York City and the Berkshires.