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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... move from the sphere of home and family and into the larger , male - dominated world . Here , Kohlberg expects that women will discover the limitations of their interpersonal perspective and move up to higher stages of development which ...
... move from the sphere of home and family and into the larger , male - dominated world . Here , Kohlberg expects that women will discover the limitations of their interpersonal perspective and move up to higher stages of development which ...
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... move to the positions of " resisting readers " ( Judith Fetterley's term ) : we make an effort to distinguish when relationships are narrowed and distorted by gender stereotypes or used as opportunities for distancing , abuse ...
... move to the positions of " resisting readers " ( Judith Fetterley's term ) : we make an effort to distinguish when relationships are narrowed and distorted by gender stereotypes or used as opportunities for distancing , abuse ...
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... move her . By her bed now stood the tall hooked pillar that held the solutions -- blood and dextrose -- to feed her veins . Jeannie moved down the hall to take over the sickroom , her face so radiant , her grandfather asked her once ...
... move her . By her bed now stood the tall hooked pillar that held the solutions -- blood and dextrose -- to feed her veins . Jeannie moved down the hall to take over the sickroom , her face so radiant , her grandfather asked her once ...
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