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...Gilligan inspired an increasing literature on the problems of adolescent girls, including Reviving Ophelia, a best-selling book about troubled teenage girls written by a clinical psychologist...
Again in 2000—18 years after In a Different Voice—Gilligan became the very visible subject of attack, this time in an Atlantic Monthly cover article called “The War Against Boys,” in which noted conservative Christine Hoff Sommers called Gilligan’s book “an extravagant piece of speculation...
Throughout the storms of controversy, Gilligan has quietly defended her book as an early attempt to widen a field that, up to that time, had left half of the population unaccounted...
Many scholars say they can’t reproduce her findings, and Gilligan keeps a tight watch over who gets access to the original data...
...these questions, too, which go to the heart of the scholarly acceptance that Gilligan has sought after, she defends herself. The interviews were conducted with confidentiality agreements that Gilligan says she can’t breach even...