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5 unusual facts about Carol Gilligan


Carol Gilligan

She is married to James Gilligan, M.D., who directed the Center for the Study of Violence at Harvard Medical School.

She attended Walden School, a progressive private school on Manhattan's Upper West Side,played piano and pursued a career in modern dance during her graduate studies.

Michigan Quarterly Review

In recent years the magazine has published nonfiction by Margaret Atwood, Carol Gilligan, Douglas Hofstadter, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Amos Oz, Richard Rorty, John Updike, and William Julius Wilson and fiction by Eileen Pollack, Peter Orner and Jacob Appel.

Normative ethics

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.

Shalhevet High School

D., and Steve Bailey, Ph.D., the school's founding headmaster, Shalhevet developed a modified version of the Kohlberg-Gilligan "Just Community" template, which it hoped would become a national model for progressive education in an Orthodox Jewish setting.



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