Revising herself : the story of women's identity from college to midlife / Ruthellen Josselson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Josselson, Ruthellen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States--Psychology--Longitudinal studies.

Women.

Women--United States--Identity--Longitudinal studies.

Identity (Psychology)--United States--Longitudinal studies.

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st Oxford University Press paperback ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Cast of Characters: The Women of the Study; 3 Identity; 4 The Guardians; 5 The Pathmakers; 6 The Searchers; 7 The Drifters; Part Three: CONVERGENCES: WHERE THE PATHWAYS LEAD; 8 Competence; 9 Connection; 10 Revision; Appendix A: Sampling Methods and Data Collection Procedures; Appendix B: The Identity Status Interview; Appendix C: The Personal History Interview; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-291) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-52993-8

0-19-802832-6

1-4294-0460-4

OCLC:

476011688