Facts about Carol Gilligan
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A professor at New York University School of Law, Carol Gilligan has applied her ethics of care framework to legal theory and jurisprudence.
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Gilligan's 1993 study Meeting at the Crossroads, conducted with Lyn Mikel Brown at two independent schools, tracked 34 girls ages 7-18 to examine how they navigated relationships and authority during childhood and adolescence.
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Gilligan's 1986 collaborative work with Annie Rogers revealed that adolescent girls frequently experience psychological dissociation from their relationships and communities during early teenage years.
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Gilligan's research with Nona Lyons examined how women lawyers and doctors integrated care and justice orientations into their professional ethics and decision-making throughout their careers.
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Gilligan's critique of Kohlberg's theory emerged from her work as a research assistant on his moral development project at Harvard during the 1970s before she developed her alternative framework.
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Gilligan's longitudinal research at the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York during the 1980s tracked the same girls over multiple years to examine how their moral reasoning and self-perception changed during adolescence.
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Gilligan's 2003 book Joining the Resistance explored how women across different cultures internalize cultural narratives that silence their voices and perspectives in relationships and communities.
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Gilligan's 1990 study with Lyn Mikel Brown documented how 100 adolescent girls at an all-girls school maintained stronger connections to their authentic voices compared to girls in coeducational settings.
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Gilligan's 1996 work The Birth of Pleasure examined how adolescent girls, particularly ages 11-16, experience disconnection from their authentic voices during puberty and social development.
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Harvard University appointed Carol Gilligan as the first Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Gender Studies in 1997, recognizing her influence on feminist theory and educational research.
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In 1982, psychologist Carol Gilligan published In a Different Voice, which challenged Lawrence Kohlberg's male-centered moral development theory with research on 29 women.