Word: gilligans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...assailing the Atlantic's cover story and its author, Christina Hoff Sommers, whose attacks, she says, ignore the studies Gilligan published to back up her 1982 best-seller, In a Different Voice...
...Sommers stands by the Atlantic article, an excerpt from her upcoming book, The War Against Boys, and claims Gilligan is a "clever illusionist" who has not produced the studies that actually prove her controversial assertions about sex differences in moral reasoning...
...crux of this she-said, she-said debate is a stack of interviews locked in the Harvard Archives, accessible only to those with Gilligan's expressed permission. Releasing this raw data may finally put an end to two decades' worth of scholarly speculation about the validity of In a Different Voice...
...Gilligan continues to keep her controversial research under wraps--and the accusations continue...
Many psychologists have long considered Gilligan's In a Different Voice, which purported to uncover differences in moral judgment between men and women, to be extremely well-written--but scientifically unfounded...