{"id":9183,"date":"2026-07-14T16:20:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=9183"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:20:35","slug":"book-talk-professor-carol-gilligan-in-conversation-with-daphne-merkin","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/events\/book-talk-professor-carol-gilligan-in-conversation-with-daphne-merkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk: Professor Carol Gilligan in Conversation with Daphne Merkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join legendary psychologist, feminist thinker, and author Carol Gilligan at the West Tisbury Library for a conversation about her new novel, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solstice<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with writer Daphne Merkin. A book signing will follow the discussion. <\/span><b>This program is free and open to the public.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Carol Gilligan\u2019s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> seminal classic <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a Different Voice<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> revolutionized the study of girls, women, and human psychology. She is currently a University Professor at the New York University School of Law. At Harvard, where she was the first Graham Professor of Gender Studies, her award-winning research led to the founding of Harvard&#8217;s Center on Gender and Education. Last year Carol won the prestigious Kyoto Prize for her body of work. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solstice <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is her second novel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join legendary psychologist, feminist thinker, and author Carol Gilligan at the West Tisbury Library for a conversation about her new novel, Solstice, with writer Daphne Merkin. A book signing will follow the discussion. This program is free and open to the public. Carol Gilligan\u2019s seminal classic In a Different Voice revolutionized the study of girls, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"class_list":["post-9183","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/9183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9183"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=9183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}