Paths to fulfillment : women's search for meaning and identity

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Label

Paths to fulfillment : women's search for meaning and identity

Title remainder

women's search for meaning and identity

Statement of responsibility

Ruthellen Josselson

Creator

• Josselson, Ruthellen

Author

• Josselson, Ruthellen

Subject

• Identity (Psychology) -- United States -- Longitudinal studies
• Identität
• Longitudinal studies
• Longitudinal studies
• United States
• Frau
• Women -- Identity
• Women -- Psychology
• Women -- United States -- Identity -- Longitudinal studies
• Women -- United States -- Psychology -- Longitudinal studies
• Weiblichkeit
• Identity (Psychology)

Genre

• Longitudinal studies

Language

eng

Summary

"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" -- From the publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

155.3/33

Index

index present

LC call number

HQ1206

LC item number

.J672 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography