Carol Gilligan

About the author

Born in New York City on November 28, 1936, Carol Gilligan is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist whose challenge to Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development reshaped how scholars think about ethics. Her landmark 1982 book In a Different Voice made her the originator of the ethics of care — a framework centered on ethical relationships and community. A professor of Humanities and Applied Psychology at New York University and former visiting professor at Cambridge, she was named one of America's 25 most influential people by Time magazine in 1996.