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...Carol Gilligan, the director of the project and a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, says this story demonstrates Emma's "resistance," both political and psychological. It is this resistance and its implications for gender and behavior studies that Gilligan began to explore in her ground breaking work, In a Different Voice, published...
...winning reporter for the Wall Street Journal, is no conspiracy theorist. She does not believe that a group of men run the "backlash" from a smoke-filled room. Instead, she calls its workings "encoded and internalized, diffuse and chameleonic," and argues that even sympathetic feminists like Harvard psychologist Carol Gilligan have unknowingly contributed to its success...
This ideal girl is one who is pretty, good at everything, "really nice and always being herself," according to one adolescent Gilligan interviewed...
...They suddenly feel the presence of a standard does not come out of girls' experience," Gilligan said. "They have entered the world of the hero legend...
...prevent this destruction of young women's individual perspectives, it is necessary to "strengthen healthy resistance in girls," Gilligan said...