Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind

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Summary: An interesting and thought-provoking text.
Review: The four authors present five epistemologies compiled from a detailed analysis of interviews conducted with 135 women over the course of several years. The interview subjects varied in their educational experience, age, ethnicity, and economic background. The authors present their findings in succinct chapters with numerous subheadings for easy reading. Citations include works by Jean Piaget, Carol Gilligan, William Perry, L. Kohlberg and many other well-known names in educational research.

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Summary: Afraid To Open Your Mouth?
Review: This book is must-reading for all women who think they cannot think--who believe they are intellectually inadequate--based largely on the intellectual and social climate in which they were raised rather than the reality of what they know and the capabilities of their mind. In addition to grouping women's approaches to knowing into five major epistemological categories and questioning why and when women shift from one mode of knowing to another, Women's Ways of Knowing encourages the reader to discover and use her own voice