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...Although Gilligan writes in her book "the different voice I describe is characterized not by gender but by theme," she does see the care voice as one which occurs more often and more consistently in women...
...Gilligan has been criticized for what Pulit zer Prize-winning author Susan Faludi, in her recent book, Backlash, calls "Victorian echoes...
...Gilligan may have left herself wide open to misinterpretation," Faludi wrote. "After disavowing generalizations about either sex, she seems to make them herself." Faludi also felt that the backgrounds and situations of the subjects Gilligan examined were not stressed enough. "Gilligan's 'studies' were not exactly drawn from ideal demographic samples," she wrote...
Zella Luria, a Tufts University psychology researcher who is cited in Faludi's book, agreed with her criticism. "I see no data to warrant the message that Carol Gilligan can tell us," Kuria said in an interview. "I find it psychologically very native to find that our experience is unencumbered knowledge we get from our innards...
...Gilligan responded to her critics in a 1986 issue of the feminist journal Signs. "The title of my book was deliberate," she wrote. "It reads 'in a different voice,' not 'in a woman's voice...