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
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.
voice people said
The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
mother children couple
For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For a woman to be a woman, did she have to be a mother, or at least prepare herself to raise children? Soldiers and mothers were the sacrificial couple, honored by statues in the park, lauded for their willingness to give their lives to others.
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.
daughter roles half
I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.
emotional joy delight
Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.
sacrifice people ethics
The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.