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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... risks in speaking what they know to be true , and their self - silencing in the presence of conflict . The authors soon ... risk being judged " stupid , " " selfish , " " rude , " or " mean " ( Meeting 217 ) . The authors abandoned the ...
... risks in speaking what they know to be true , and their self - silencing in the presence of conflict . The authors soon ... risk being judged " stupid , " " selfish , " " rude , " or " mean " ( Meeting 217 ) . The authors abandoned the ...
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... risk relationship with her friends for authentic relationship with her own self . In " O Yes , ” Jeannie moves to ... risks disruption of the family but , as I mentioned earlier , she is fortunate to have a family where such contention ...
... risk relationship with her friends for authentic relationship with her own self . In " O Yes , ” Jeannie moves to ... risks disruption of the family but , as I mentioned earlier , she is fortunate to have a family where such contention ...
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... risk telling the truth as she knows it . Sometimes she is punished for it . In " Hey Sailor , " the truth for Jeannie is that Whitey poses a threat to those relationships that matter most to her at the time . Although she is lectured by ...
... risk telling the truth as she knows it . Sometimes she is punished for it . In " Hey Sailor , " the truth for Jeannie is that Whitey poses a threat to those relationships that matter most to her at the time . Although she is lectured by ...
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