Ruthellen Josselson

Paths to Fulfillment (eBook, ePUB)

Women's Search for Meaning and Identity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How do women create fulfilling lives? How does the identity they choose (or not choose) by the end of their college career affect how their lives unfold? For 35 years, Ruthellen Josselson has followed 25 randomly selected women who graduated from college in the early 1970s. Because these women came of age at this particular time in history, they were the trailblazers in creating new possibilities for women's lives by taking up meaningful roles in the work world. These "real" women, in contrast to the stereotypes of the time, took on the challenge in very different ways and championed very different lives for themselves. In Paths to Fulfillment: Women's Search for Meaning and Identity, Josselson traces the stages of these women's lives and the ways in which identity, intimacy, and care for others over time leads to fulfillment, or in some cases, a lack of fulfillment. She examines the complexity of the relationship between a woman's roots, her efforts to create a unique life for herself, and how others become part of identity. Josselson examines individual lives in depth for clues to understanding the strengths that help a woman to find fulfillment, and how in generativity becomes an anchor for meaningful identity as lives unfold. With remarkable clarity and insight, Josselson challenges simplistic generalizations about women, and shows how work, love, and care are all intertwined in a woman's sense of identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190250416
• Artikelnr.: 48126474

Autorenporträt

Ruthellen Josselson is a psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Chapter 1. Women and Identity
* Chapter 2. The Pathmakers
* Chapter 3. A Pathmaker and Her Daughter - and a Pathmaker Who Lost
Her Way
* Chapter 4. The Guardians
* Chapter 5. The Searchers
* Chapter 6. The Drifters
* Chapter 7. A Drifter Who Created a Path
* Chapter 8. Paths to Fulfillment - Reflections on Adult Growth and
Development in Women
* Afterword
* Discussion Questions