Synopsis
Gilligan's influential study arguing that women often reason morally through care and relationship, a voice prior theories wrongly judged as deficient.
Core passage idea
Paraphrase · Modern copyrighted workThere is a morality of care and responsibility, centered on relationships, that stands alongside the morality of abstract rights and rules.
It revalues relational, contextual moral reasoning that male-centered psychology had treated as inferior.
To avoid a bubble
Pair with Joan Tronto, Moral Boundaries.
Reading note
Read it as empirical psychology making a normative turn, noting later debates over whether the voice is gendered.
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Joan Tronto, Moral Boundaries
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