The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of Love

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 observes ...