Women's Ethical Coming-of-age: Adolescent Female Characters in the Prose Fiction of Tillie OlsenThis work examines Tillie Olsen's four short stories in Tell Me A Riddle, and her novel fragment Yonnondio: From the Thirties in terms of the ethical development of the adolescent female characters. The study uses the ethics of responsibility and care as identified by Carol Gilligan to investigate each young female character's struggle to grow, to make her place in the world, and to remain in relationship with herself and others. The book contextualizes the exclusion of the ethics of care from the literary canon and argues for inclusion of multiple ethical modes. |
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... choice . Women tend to be more aware of the needs of the persons involved in the decision , and tend to reject the notion of ... choices of leaving or of speaking up in unsatisfactory social organizations , and draws a connection between ...
... choice . Women tend to be more aware of the needs of the persons involved in the decision , and tend to reject the notion of ... choices of leaving or of speaking up in unsatisfactory social organizations , and draws a connection between ...
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... choices-- choices that destroy relationship whichever way they turn . The either- or framing ( selfish or selfless , self or relationship ) marks an inner psychological split or division . Taking on moral language , girls take on the ...
... choices-- choices that destroy relationship whichever way they turn . The either- or framing ( selfish or selfless , self or relationship ) marks an inner psychological split or division . Taking on moral language , girls take on the ...
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... choices regarding relationship with others . And so it is with Emily . She must make choices about her relationships to others , and she must try to consider her own needs as well as her sense of what others want from her . How she ...
... choices regarding relationship with others . And so it is with Emily . She must make choices about her relationships to others , and she must try to consider her own needs as well as her sense of what others want from her . How she ...
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