Psy 214' Psychology of Women Nov' 1, 2005

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Psy 214. Psychology of WomenNov. 1, 2005

• Baker-Miller Gilligan toward a psychology of
  women and men that is inclusive of both genders
  lived experience
• Inquiry Group presentations

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Overview of Gilligans work in relation to
Baker-Miller

• Baker-Miller finds that womens strengths have
  been made into what is not valued and, therefore,
  are called weaknesses.

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Overview of Gilligans work in relation to
Baker-Miller

• Gilligan finds that womens moral reasoning is
  contextual and dependent upon reducing hurt to
  others and, therefore, scores lower on the
  Kohlberg scale which uses rules and principles.

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Overview of Gilligans work in relation to
Baker-Miller

• In Baker-Millers new psychology it is only by
  including womens strengths into our theorizing
  about human development that a whole human (and
  humane) psychology can be constructed.

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Overview of Gilligans work in relation to
Baker-Miller

• Gilligan likewise finds that only by including
  womens moral reasoning, what she calls, an
  ethic of care, into our theorizing about moral
  development can a whole psychology of moral
  development be constructed.

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Overview of Gilligans work in relation to
Baker-Miller

• Both theorists/psychologists find that
  psychological development has been theorized from
  an androcentric or patriarchal perspective which
  has at its core a male bias (white and
  privileged) through which women are found to be
  not-like-men and therefore inferior.

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Overview of Gilligans work in relation to
Baker-Miller

• What would it mean to actually do what
  Baker-Miller and Gilligan suggest?
• How would we go about doing it?
• Methodologies?
• Conceptual frameworks?
• Who would be included?
• What are some of the limitations of
  Baker-Millers and Gilligans research?
• How would you correct for these limitations?