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...Gilligan says studies like these have shown how girls' behavior may be different from what was previously perceived as the norm for adolescents. They can "smell bullshit a mile away," says Elizabeth Debold, a fourth-year graduate student who has been involved in many of the Harvard Project's studies...
...same concerns that initiated the Emma Willard study led Gilligan toward the project that became In a Different Voice. The book grew out of an essay Gilligan wrote in 1975, sitting at her "dining room table," she says. As a graduate student at the Graduate School of Education here, she had noted the absence or inaccuracy of studies about women in the psychological canon...
...Different Voice suggested that their are two ways of thinking about questions of morality, called by Gilligan the "care voice" and the "justice voice." While the justice voice tends to accent abstract principles and laws as reasons for moral behavior, the care voice deals more with emotions and relationships between people...
...recent interview, Gilligan provided an example of what the care voice might mean, based on a fable presented to children who participated in one of the Harvard Project's studies...
...Young girls talk about the hurt of the moles, the fact that the moles are being hurt," Gilligan says. "One girl asked if they could cover the porcupine with a blaket." The girls are concerned with the feelings of both parties...