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Meeting at the Crossroads (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

From 1986 to 1990, Lyn Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan led a team of researchers who conducted periodic interviews with one hundred girls from Cleveland, Ohio, all of whom were students at the Laurel School, a private girls’ academy. The members of the group whom they interviewed ranged in age from seven to eighteen and came from working-class, middle-class, and upper-middle-class families, as well as from a range of ethnic backgrounds. From the stories generated by this varied and interesting group, the authors chart the difficult transition faced by women as they enter adolescence...

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