Joining the Resistance
Carol GilliganSözler ve Alıntılar
...She is asking about the riddle of girl's development: why is it that girls who seem more intelligent and livelier than boys of the same age, who go out more to meet the exertanl world and at the same time form stonger connections with people, often become less intelligent and lively when they reach adolescence? Like girls in novels and poems written by womeni girls interviewed in comtemporary school settings speak about thaing themselves out of relationships as they approach adolescence, ''building a little shield,'' ''getting afraid to say when you're mad at somebody,'' ''losing confidence in myself.'' Taking their honest voices out of their relationships, they are self-consciously letting go of themselves.
What happens to girls when they reach this age? ''I think,'' Sharon miller says, ''they have let go of themselves. I think it is the unusual middle school girl who can say, 'if you don't like me the way I am, fine!' Most girls can't say that because there is no one there.''
''Why not? I ask her. I am thinking of girls who are so resolute, so present at eleven. ''Well that's the question,'' Miller responds. ''You know, what happens to girls when they get to that age? Well, because that is the age when girls start identifying with adult women.''
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