Joining the resistance: Psychology, politics, girls and women

holds a Ph.D. degree from Harvard Uni- versity, where she is now a professor in human develop- ment and psychology at Harvard’s Graduate School of Edu- cation. In addition to an A.B. from Swarthmore College and an M.A. from Radcliffe College, she also holds hon- orary degrees from Regis, Swarthmore and Haverford col- leges. She has held a Mellon Fellowship from the Wellesley Center for Research on Women as well as the Blanche, Edith and Irving Laurie New Jersey Chair in Women’s Studies at Rutgers University. In addition to numerous articles on adolescent development, sex differences, and moral development, she is the author of