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Carol Gilligan

Carol Gilligan Biography

Psychologist

Carol Gilligan is an American psychologist born on November 28, 1936. She is renowned for her contributions to the field of moral development theory, particularly her theory on women's moral development. Gilligan's research highlights the role of gender differences in moral judgment and decision-making.

Carol Gilligan is an American psychologist born on November 28, 1936. She is renowned for her contributions to the field of moral development theory, particularly her theory on women's moral development. Gilligan's research highlights the role of gender differences in moral judgment and decision-making.

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“I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.”

Differences Gender Determined Disturbing Gender Differences

Book:In a Different Voice

Source: In a Different Voice

“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.”

Men May Different Self Speak Language Social Moral Share Research Men And Women Assuming Vocabulary Systematic Propensity Different Languages Overlapping Social Relationships

Book:In a Different Voice

Source: In a Different Voice

“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.”

Sometimes Earth Grows Love Is Spring Rain Gentle Love Life Steady Joyful Filling Collecting Love Is Like Flooding Maybe Love

Author:Carol Gilligan

“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.”

Body Joy Pleasure Written Emotional Delight Sensations Pointing Compass Markers True North

Author:Carol Gilligan

“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.”

Men Giving Children War Mother Couple Raises Soldier Parks Willingness Honored Statues Be A Man Child Soldier

Author:Carol Gilligan

“Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.”

Speak Voice Democracy Heard Depends Resonance

Author:Carol Gilligan

“The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.”

People Sacrifice Danger Ethics Blind Willingness Willingness To Sacrifice

Author:Carol Gilligan

“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.”

Moments Together Mother House Grows Ability Break Baby Safe Goodness Losing Bases Inevitable Mother And Baby

Author:Carol Gilligan

“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.”

Ifs Men Stories Shows Courses Trouble Bounds Adam Adam And Eve

Book:In a Different Voice

Source: In a Different Voice

“While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.”

Men Powerful Activity Feminine Contrast Aggression Assertion

Book:In a Different Voice

Source: In a Different Voice

“Theory can blind observation.”

Design Theory Blind Observation

Book:In a Different Voice

Source: In a Different Voice

“The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.”

People Said Felt Voice Heard Hardest Hardest Times

Author:Carol Gilligan

“Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.”

Crisis Perpetual

Author:Carol Gilligan

“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.”

Should Care Hurt Justice Ethics Treated Nonviolence Premises

Author:Carol Gilligan

“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.”

Used Half Roles Students Daughter Graduates Patriarchy Rebellious Graduate Students

Author:Carol Gilligan

“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.”

Different Care Lying Voice Responsibility Ethics Connections Ties Aggression Lying Men Different Voices Women Lie

Book:In a Different Voice

Source: In a Different Voice

“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.”

Men Judgment Sensibility Variance

Book:In a Different Voice

Source: In a Different Voice

“At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.”

Made Social Sex Differences Justice Effort Discrimination Equality And Justice Social Equality

Book:In a Different Voice

Source: In a Different Voice

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Real Feelings Found Conversation Real Conversation

Author:Carol Gilligan

About the Author

Born: November 28, 1936
Known for: Psychologist
Quotes: 19

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