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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... seen as good girls ... " ( Brown and Gilligan 88 ) . In " Hey Sailor , What Ship ? " Jeannie is not much older than twelve or thirteen and , as we have seen , she still struggles to be seen as nice and kind and good . When Whitey ...
... seen as good girls ... " ( Brown and Gilligan 88 ) . In " Hey Sailor , What Ship ? " Jeannie is not much older than twelve or thirteen and , as we have seen , she still struggles to be seen as nice and kind and good . When Whitey ...
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... seen her preoccupation with fairness throughout the story , as well as her blindness to the double standard she employs in terms of her own unfairness , dishonesty , cursing , etc. , all typical for adolescents . Yet we have also seen ...
... seen her preoccupation with fairness throughout the story , as well as her blindness to the double standard she employs in terms of her own unfairness , dishonesty , cursing , etc. , all typical for adolescents . Yet we have also seen ...
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... seen and with whom they can safely speak " ( 168 ) . The fact that Jeannie is speaking to her parents suggests that they are in some measure " safe . " We have already seen their liberal political stance in their union activities ...
... seen and with whom they can safely speak " ( 168 ) . The fact that Jeannie is speaking to her parents suggests that they are in some measure " safe . " We have already seen their liberal political stance in their union activities ...
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