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...Gilligan has spent much of the last two decades elaborating on the distinction that she proposed in 1982. When she explains her thesis of rights/justice versus response/care modes to the unindoctrinated, one example she likes to cite involves a story about a family of moles...
When given this scenario, girls tend to focus on the feelings of both the moles and the porcupine. Gilligan says one girl asked if she could put a blanket on the porcupine to soften the blow of its quills and let it stay in the moles’ house...
...other hand, the justice-centric voice more typical of males would focus on the fact that the house belongs to the moles and the porcupine has no right to be there, Gilligan says...
...Gilligan argues that when girls become teenagers and are indoctrinated into patriarchy, the voice that characterizes women’s way of thinking goes “underground” and becomes masked underneath the logic of rights/justice...
...When Harvard takes a step a path opens,” Gilligan says. “Because it was published by Harvard University Press it had a kind of credibility...