Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilliganis an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work on ethical community and ethical relationships, and certain subject-object problems in ethics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth28 November 1936
CountryUnited States of America
mother baby house
Trust grows when babies and mothers establish that they can find each other again after the inevitable moments of losing touch. It is not the goodness of the mother or the relationship per se that is the basis for trust; it is the ability of mother and baby together to repair the breaks in their relationship that builds a safe house for love.
crisis perpetual
Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.
men stories trouble
It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.
men judgment sensibility
Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.
sacrifice people ethics
The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
voice democracy speak
Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.
real thinking people
I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.
men self vocabulary
My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships. Because these languages share an overlapping moral vocabulary, they contain a propensity for systematic mistranslation ...
hurt justice care
While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.
spring rain love-life
Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.
powerful men feminine
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
lying responsibility voice
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
associated certain
Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.
differences determined gender
I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.