The Birth of Pleasure

The author of the classic In a Different Voice offers a brilliant, provocative book about love that has powerful implications for the way we live and love today.  “Compelling ... A thrilling new paradigm.” — The Times Literary Supplement Carol Gilligan, whose In a Different Voice revolutionized the study of human psychology, now asks: Why is love so often associated with tragedy? Why are our experiences of pleasure so often shadowed by loss? And can we change these patterns? Gilligan observ