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Hearing the Difference: Theorizing Connection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Carol Gilligan
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Abstract

Hearing the difference between a patriarchal voice and a relational voice defines a paradigm shift: a change in the conception of the human world. Theorizing connection as primary and fundamental in human life leads to a new psychology, which shifts the grounds for philosophy and political theory. A crucial distinction is made between a feminine ethic of care and a feminist ethic of care. Voice, relationship, resistance, and women become central rather than peripheral in this reframing of the human world.

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Symposium on Care and Justice
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Hypatia , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , Spring 1995 , pp. 120 - 127
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Copyright © 1995 by Hypatia, Inc.

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