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In a Different Voice

Carol Gilligan

Care ethics / moral psychology

It founds the care-ethics tradition and is indispensable to routes on feminist moral psychology.

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 work

There 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.

Best paired with

Joan Tronto, Moral Boundaries

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