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Carol Gilligan Biography

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  • 1982 In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development
  • 1992 Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development

Psychologist, born in New York City, New York, USA. She studied English at Swarthmore (1958 BA), psychology at Radcliffe (1961 MA), and clinical psychology at Harvard (1964 PhD). After working as a lecturer at the University of Chicago (1965–6), she began teaching at Harvard (1967). She is best known for investigations of how women develop their self-identities and values in a society dominated by patriarchal values, as in her publications In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development (1982) and Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development (with Lyn Mikel Brown, 1992).

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