ABSTRACT
Feminist groups have a voice in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis as well as in social, developmental, industrial/organizational, educational psychology, and so forth, and they work together with considerable political clout on issues arising within the organization as a whole. An analysis of citation patterns in the literature, however, would probably confirm the impression of many who participate in interdisciplinary activities that feminist psychology and psychologists are relatively isolated from feminist scholarship in other disciplines. Carol Gilligan's research and writing have focused on three interrelated topics, all of which have both critical implications for traditional psychological theories and positive suggestions for future interdisciplinary feminist research. Feminist scholars in disciplines other than psychology have drawn on Gilligan's work with unusual enthusiasm, in part because it is almost universally read by feminists against a theoretical background previously laid out by Dorothy Dinnerstein and especially by Nancy Chodorow.
