Carol Gilligan is probably best known to psychology students as one of the main critics of Kohlberg’s theory of moral development, but more importantly, she has contributed a great deal to our appreciation of gender and to our understanding of the human condition and human development. Professor Gilligan is one of the most distinguished writers and teachers in the field of psychology — in 1997, Time magazine named her as one of the 25 most influential people in the USA.
Professor Gilligan was born and raised in New York City and has recently returned there as a professor at New York University. For over 30 years, she worked at Harvard University, where she held the university’s first professorship in gender studies. Her interest in gender started when she was the first to consider how listening to women’s voices would change psychological theory, including theories of identity and moral development. This led her to produce her landmark book, In a Different Voice (now translated into 18 languages), which remains a major influence on feminism, ethics, and research in the social sciences.
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