When the Mind Leaves the Body... and Returns

By listening to girls narrate their experiences in coming of age - first in yearly interviews and then in the more intensive writing and theater clubs that met weekly or in week-long sessions over a period of three years - my colleagues and I came to see girls as messengers, like canaries in a mine....

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Published inDaedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) Vol. 135; no. 3; pp. 55 - 66
Main Author Gilligan, Carol
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA The MIT Press 22.06.2006
MIT Press
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Subjects
Adolescence
Brain
Cognition & reasoning
Concept of mind
Females
Gilligan, Carol
Girls
Intelligence
Mind
Mind and body
Mothers
Neurosciences
Parents
Psychological aspects
Psychology
Self
Somatosensory perception
Students
Voiced sounds
Women
United States
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Summary:By listening to girls narrate their experiences in coming of age - first in yearly interviews and then in the more intensive writing and theater clubs that met weekly or in week-long sessions over a period of three years - my colleagues and I came to see girls as messengers, like canaries in a mine.1 They alerted us to a process of initiation that required them to separate their minds from their bodies, their thoughts from their emotions, themselves from their relationships. [...] picking up Morrison's question in light of the new truths revealed by neurobiology and developmental psychology, my thoughts lead me to imagine what it could mean to free ourselves, men and women, from a false story about human nature, to release ourselves from the prison of a rewritten history and break a cycle of tragedy and trauma.
Bibliography:Summer, 2006
ISSN:0011-5266
1548-6192
DOI:10.1162/daed.2006.135.3.55