Abstract
When Carol Gilligan, Nel Noddings, and other ethicists of caring draw
the contrast between supposedly masculine and supposedly feminine moral
thinking, they put such things as justice, autonomy, and rights
together under the first rubric and such things as caring,
responsibility for others, and connection together under the second.
This division naturally leaves caring ethicists with the issue of how
to deal with topics such as justice, autonomy, and rights, but it also
leaves defenders of more traditional moral theories (now dubbed
“masculine”) with the problem of how to treat (if at all)
the sorts of issues that ethicists of caring raise.
