Revising herself the story of women's identity from college to midlife
In 1972, Ruthellen Josselson was a young psychologist fascinated by the riddle of how a woman creates an identity and chooses one path over another in life--particularly in the face of the nascent feminist movement, which challenged as never before the traditional role models of earliergenerations....
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press
1998.
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Edition: | 1st Oxford University Press paperback ed |
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798089806719 |
Summary: | In 1972, Ruthellen Josselson was a young psychologist fascinated by the riddle of how a woman creates an identity and chooses one path over another in life--particularly in the face of the nascent feminist movement, which challenged as never before the traditional role models of earliergenerations. Selecting at random thirty young women in their last year of college, Josselson undertook a ground-breaking study that would follow these women's personal odysseys over the next twenty-two years, from graduation to midlife. What she learned about the ways women reinvent themselves in anever-changing |
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Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-291) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781280529931 9780198028321 9781429404600 |