Carol Gilligan and the Search for Voice

A biography of the life and work of groundbreaking developmental psychologist Carol Gilligan, intended for high school age readers, part of the APA's Extraordinary Women in Psychology Series.

Carol Gilligan has devoted her life to discovering, uncovering, and recovering voices belonging to girls and women, as well as boys and men. Through her work, she has played an enormous role in reconceptualizing traditionally held views on moral and identity development in young people, most prominently in her landmark 1982 book detailing her ethic of care model, In a Different Voice (coined by Harvard University Press as “The little book that started a revolution”). 

Drawing on source material that includes interviews with Gilligan as well as her own writings in books and articles, this book offers young readers not only the opportunity to learn about a pioneering psychologist and her momentous work, but also for them to consider the potential power of their own voices as they go forward in life. 

Bill Cole is a school psychologist based in New Jersey, having earned his graduate degree from Teachers College, Columbia University. He is also an adjunct professor of developmental psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University, in which he teaches Carol Gilligan's Ethic of Care model. He has published several op-ed articles on education and child development related to social and emotional learning and trauma. He has also had several short fiction pieces published for which he has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. Additionally, his stories have appeared in Highlights for Children Magazine, one of which won their Pewter Plate Award and another which was made into an audiobook. 

Sarah Green graduated from RISD in 2014 with a BFA in Illustration and began her career in children's books in 2015, with over
a dozen solo-illustrated picture books, as well as several covers and middle grade books. She has also illustrated a line of stationary for Trader Joes, had a regular role illustrating a column in the New York Times, and has worked with a range of editorial clients, including Sephora, The British Library, and Hearst Corporation. Sarah received her MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in
2021, and currently teaches in the Illustration Department there alongside working as a full time illustrator. Sarah is from the San
Francisco Bay Area and lives in Vancouver, Canada. Visit sarahgreenillustration.com, @s_green_bean on X, and @sarahgreenstudio on Instagram.