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March 15, 2000

Media Alert

WHO: Writer and psychologist Carol Gilligan
WHAT: Lecture on "The Birth of Pleasure"
WHEN: April 6, 2000 at 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Wood Auditorium (McCosh 10) on the Princeton University campus

Carol Gilligan, named one of the 25 most influential people in the United States by Time Magazine, raised the study of gender issues to a new level with her groundbreaking book In a Different Voice in 1982. Since then, Gilligan's research has led to the founding of the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development and the publication of five more books, including Meeting at the Crossroads (1992, with L.M. Brown) and Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationship (1995, with J. Taylor and A. Sullivan).

Gilligan's current research extends to studies of courage and resistance in young boys, the power of education and the role of gender in social change. She is the first Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Gender Studies at Harvard University.

Her lecture at Princeton is sponsored by the Program in the Study of Women and Gender.

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