In Another Voice
If most American girls lose their confidence as they mature, what happens in a religious community that segregates the sexes?
| 10:23 AM Mar 26, 2004
Stephanie Wellen Levine
When Stephanie Wellen Levine befriended seven teenagers at Bais Rivka, a Lubavitch girls’ high school in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, she wanted to test Carol Gilligan’s theory that contemporary culture silences girls as they grow older. In Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey among Hasidic Girls, Levine, a Gilligan protégé who teaches at ...
