She graduated Swarthmore College in 1958 and majored in literature.
She also received her doctorate degree in social psychology in 1964.
Gilligan had started to teach at Harvard in 1968 and she worked with Erik Erikson and Lawrence Kohlberg.
“She is currently on the faculty of New York University School of Law. She also has had the following appointments:
· University professor, 2002
· Visiting professor, 1999-2001
· Visiting Meyer Professor, 1998-99
· Visiting professor at the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Cambridge, 2006-present
· British Academy Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge, 2005-present
· Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of Cambridge, 1993-94
· Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, University of Cambridge, 1992-93”
Gilligan was teaching a class at Harvard called Gender in Psychology and Culture: Theory and Method. She also teaches seminars on Law and Culture and works with first year college students to help them practice law. Carol Gilligan has been teaching at Harvard for 5 years.
“Women were taught to care for other people and expect others to care for them” Carol Gilligan helped to form a new psychology or women to rethink the meaning for self and selfishness.
“Women must learn to tend to their own interests and to the interests of others.”
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Carol Gilligan worked at New York University in 2002.
Gilligan has written the books:
In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development (1982)
Women, Girls, and Psychotherapy: Reframing Resistance (1991)
Meeting at the Crossroads (1992)
Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationship (1995)
The Birth of Pleasure (2002)
Women, Girls, and Psychotherapy: Reframing Resistance (1991)
Meeting at the Crossroads (1992)
Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationship (1995)
The Birth of Pleasure (2002)
Gilligan’s theory focuses on sex differences “in moral reasoning, the perception of violence, the resolution of sexual dilemmas and abortion decisions, poses a major challenge to Kohlberg's theory by introducing a feminist perspective of moral development.”
Gilligan strongly feels that women need to stand up for themselves and get rid of the gender roles.
Carol Gilligan’s parents were William E. Friedman and Mabel (Caminez) Friedman.
Gilligan’s father was a lawyer and her mother was a teacher.
Carol Gilligan grew up Jewish in the Holocaust era. When she was a child, she had studied language and music.
Carol Gilligan received masters in clinical psychology from Radcliffe in 1960.
Gilligan had started to teach at Harvard in 1968 and she worked with Erik Erikson and Lawrence Kohlberg.