Has research on girls' development changed our understanding of women's psychology? What are we to make of the frank and fearless voices of girls such as Greta Thunberg (with her climate strike) and Amanda Gorman (the poet at Biden's inauguration)? How can we understand women's silences?

Learning Objectives

1. To understand the difference between healthy resistance, political resistance, and psychological resistance.
2. To understand why Black women's voices have been key to realizing the democratic ideal of equal voice.
3. To consider why does patriarchy persist?