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Carol Gilligan on 'In A Different Voice'
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Carol Gilligan recounts a much greater impact than expected.
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Carol Gilligan:
In 2002, Carol Gilligan became University Professor at New York University, with affiliations in the School of Law, the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is currently teaching a seminar at the Law School on Resisting Injustice and an advanced research seminar on The Listening Guide Method of Psychological Inquiry. She is a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge affiliated with the Centre for Gender Studies and with Jesus College.
She received an A.B. in English literature from Swarthmore College, a masters degree in clinical psychology from Radcliffe College and a Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University. Her landmark book In A Different Voice (1982) is described by Harvard University Press as "the little book that started a revolution." Following In A Different Voice, she initiated the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development and co-authored or edited 5 books with her students.
She received a Senior Research Scholar award from the Spencer Foundation, a Grawemeyer Award for her contributions to education, a Heinz Award for her contributions to understanding the human condition and was named by Time Magazine as one of the 25 most influential Americans.
She was a member of the Harvard faculty for over 30 years and in 1997 became Harvard's first professor of Gender Studies, occupying the Patricia Albjerg Graham chair.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Carol Gilligan: I sat down to write this essay, was the first thing I think I ever wrote, that wasn’t for school to make sense to myself of why it was so hard for women to say what they felt or thought and be heard without having it distorted and come back to them in some way that just did not even sound like what they where trying to say and also how come I hadn’t seen the absence of women from the psychology I was teaching. So, I thought may be my mother would read this book or people who worked on the same floor I worked on it at Harvard, it never occurred to me, but I wrote this paper and it started to circulate like almost as a kind of underground thing. So, that was a huge discovery for me just really huge I did expected, Harvard press when they published the book, they published 3000 copies, nobody expected. It’s had a huge impact, I mean I will tell you like one good example, which is women use to be seen as unintelligent, because we were set to be emotional, men where rational and women were emotional. Well, honestly if you think about that ridiculous, because men have feelings and women think kind of though. So, now we have this high phase emotional intelligence and it’s a big wanted face, because it’s cooperation are suppose to incorporate it and people forget that where that came from was this work questioning this division between emotional women and intelligent humans and saying when you join these qualities which had been as seen as women’s qualities with human quality here those where all human quality. So, we have emotion intelligence and relation of self and most recently the feeling brain and that means that the whole paradigm has changed.
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The first book I read of Carol Gilligan's was her collaboration with Richards "The Deepening Darkness". I was agog! I had to continue and continued by reading her "Joining the Resistance", the continuance of the theme describing patriarchy in conflict with democracy. I knew I was skirting around her first book and finally realised I actually had to read it before continuing with her current books. So, I put down "Joining" and purchased a copy of this seminal book "In a Different Voice" . The book margins are now full of my annotations, both philosophical and clinical, and highlighted in several keyed colors. This book is as important to me as my encounter with Henri Laborit's "La Nouvelle Grille" and its subsequent "In Praise of Escape" (Eloge de la fuite). Gilligan has brought to the surface the liminal domain female dialogue had been relegated to. Proposing the moral theory of Ethics of Care she has valued terms and conditions of our caring actions htat both caring women and men have used. Heretofore, this conversation had been emarginated as irrational, immature and religious without hope of being represented in our justice system. And yet, justice needed care in one of the founding cases when Solomon decides that a baby has to be cut into halves in order to be 'fair' and leaves the women to deal with the official judgement. He recognised the true mother because she refused to let harm of 'justice' come to the child, which was the UNREALISTIC and only fairness that he could publically arrive at. He was sure that the unrecognised domain of LOVE would prevail and determine the true outcome of the courts. I love Gilligan's seminal book. It has helped me understand myself and the choices I have made in life more clearly. I understand my mental health clients with more clearly -informed compassion. All caring humans are speaking in this 'different' voice. All the men who were ready to break through the cultural barriers and become nurses have experienced the same anguish women have lived with when admitting they care and make it the foundation of their career. There is no justice without caring, we would not even seek justice if we did not care. Lack of care undermines justice, and politics in general.
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@alberteusebio1707
2 жыл бұрын
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@Mikestheman2b
10 ай бұрын
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This is really interesting, especially under the title "In a Different Voice" instead of saying "In a Female Voice". I think a lot of the problems women had at that time, with women's voices being marginalised, are problems, men have today. For example looking at victims of violence, men's voices are completely left out of the discussion, in spite of men being the majority of victims of violence. Interesting is also the stereotypes, she discusses. The stereotype of women being "emotional" is still a lot perpetrated, with men being thought of as cold and rational and women as warm and empathic. So in conclusion I have to disagree, that the whole paradigm have changed. A lot has changed, but we still operate under a lot of outdated gender paradigms, which are still as harmful. The difference is, that sexism against women became sanctioned in society, while sexism against men is still mostly unsanctioned and sometimes even encouraged. Anyhow I really like a lot of her ideas and especially the way she talks. When Gilligan is talking about feminism, it seems to me, that she is not talking about men as sole perpetrators and women as sole victims, but rather about a change in society, that was much needed at that point.
How come very smart professors look homeless and tired.
@sahtification
5 ай бұрын
they validate themselves without image
I feel like while she is right about women being brought down in the adult world, but she has made points that girls are at a disadvantage in schools while evidence points towards boys being at a significant disadvantage in schools. She has a bias. A fairly major bias.
@CristianFarapon
6 жыл бұрын
Indeed, not only sexism against women has been abolished by law, but now in the very! recent time there is real! sexism against man in some ares it translated that women are actually getting paid more! for the same job or even working less
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