Different Voice Carol Gilligan Analysis
In In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan, a psychologist, claims that women often value relationships more than they value their autonomy while men often focus more on themselves than on their relationships. According to Gilligan, women often care too much about the other person in a relationship and do not care enough about their own needs and ambitions. ... If we just take a quick glance at our world and the relationships that lie within it, we would get the idea that Carol Gilligan=s views were very true. However, if we go inside, take a deeper look at those individual relationships, we would see that there is a variety of different actions that take place in these relationships. ... There are relationships out there that even bring Gilligan=s views to a full u-turn, putting the men in the women=s position and the women in the men=s position. Some of the authors that we have read this summer have supported Carol Gilligan=s views. ... Another story which aids Gilligan=s views on relationships is AO Youth and Beauty@ by John Cheever. ... Some of the stories in which we have read this summer contradict Carol Gilligan=s beliefs on men and women in relationships. ... Another story which conflicts with Carol Gilligan is AParker=s Back@ by Flannery O=Connor. ... Along with the stories we have read through this course, I have had a personal experience which fully contradicts Carol Gilligan=s theory and I have witnessed a relationship which coincides with it as well. ... So, my life for one, greatly proves Gilligan=s theory of a man=s standing point in a relationship as well as a women=s. A friend of mine, however, backed up Carol Gilligan strongly. ... We all feel, see, think, act in different ways. ... Therefore, I do not agree with what Carol Gilligan says about the actions of men and women in relationships the slightest.