Women's Growth in Connection: Writings from the Stone Center

Judith V. Jordan

Guilford Press, Apr 19, 1991 - Social Science - 310 pages

Women's Growth in Connection offers a sampling of the influential idea s emanating from The Stone Center, Wellesley College, about women's me aning systems, values, and organization of experiences. These chapters, about women's ways of being in the world, frame an innovative relati onal perspective on women's psychological development. The authors--cl inicians, clinical supervisors, and teachers--have been searching for therapeutic models that more clearly reflect women's lives. They are t roubled by models of "human" development inspired by male culture, mod els that define health and maturity in terms of separation and consist ently define women as deficient.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• The Development of Womens Sense of Self: 11
• Implications for: 27
• A Theory of Womens: 51
• Empathy and Self Boundaries: 67
• The Meaning of Mutuality: 81
• Mothers and: 97
• Womens Self Development in Late Adolescence: 122
• APPLICATIONS: 130
• The Meanings of Dependency in FemaleMale: 143
• The Construction of Anger in Women and Men: 181
• Women and Power: 197
• Implications for Depression: 206
• Work Inhibitions in Women: 223
• Eating Patterns as a Reflection of Womens: 237
• Reframing Treatment: 250
• New: 268
• References: 291
• Index: 306

About the author

Judith Jordan, Ph.D., is Director of Training and Founding Scholar at the Jean Baker Miller Institute, the Stone Center, Wellesley College, and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Women's Growth in Connection: Writings from the Stone Center
• Editor: Judith V. Jordan
• Contributor: Stone Center for Developmental Services and Studies
• Publisher: Guilford Press, 1991
• ISBN: 0898624657, 9780898624656
• Length: 310 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Women's Studies