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Carol Gilligan (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l ɪ ɡ ən /; born November 28, 1936) is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist, best known for her work on ethical community and ethical relationships. Gilligan is a professor of Humanities and Applied Psychology at New York University and was a visiting professor at the Centre for Gender Studies and Jesus ...
Feminist ethics is an approach to ethics that builds on the belief that traditionally ethical theorizing has undervalued and/or underappreciated women's moral experience, which is largely male-dominated, and it therefore chooses to reimagine ethics through a holistic feminist approach to transform it.
Care-focused feminism, alternatively called gender feminism, [20] is a branch of feminist thought informed primarily by the ethics of care as developed by Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings. [19] This theory is critical of how caring is socially engendered, being assigned to women and consequently devalued.
In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development is a book on gender studies by American professor Carol Gilligan, published in 1982, which Harvard University Press calls "the little book that started a revolution". [1] In the book, Gilligan criticized Kohlberg's stages of moral development of children. Kohlberg's data showed ...
Carol Gilligan famously championed the role of relationships as central to moral reasoning, and superior as a basis for understanding human choices than any prior linguistic or meta-ethical concept. This perspective is now commonly called the ethics of care.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOMESTIC WORKER: CARIBBEAN IMMIGRANT WOMEN AND THE CAMPAIGN FOR FAIR LABOR STANDARDS (with related Policy Recommendations) By ARLENE M. ROBERTS, ESQ.
Ethics of care, or relational ethics, founded by feminist theorists, notably Carol Gilligan, argues that morality arises out of the experiences of empathy and compassion. It emphasizes the importance of interdependence and relationships in achieving ethical goals.
Run-of-the-mill porn can be fraught with issues. Much of it is still centered on the male gaze, women are often depicted in demeaning ways and consent can feel iffy at best. Enter ethical porn ...