Carol Gilligan wrote “…I came to a sudden and…startling realization that to bring women’s lives into history was a disruptive act. It would change the account of both life-history and history by illuminating a reality of connectedness where separateness had been assumed” (p. 132). The impact of women’s history is everywhere, in every field of endeavor and human thought. Changes in human practice come more slowly. Errors and abuses based on an assumption of male subjectivity and male supremacy abound. But women’s voices grow louder and more determined—speaking in behalf of the mutuality of relationships and the inter-connectedness of all humanity.
Ellen Toronto (Sat,) studied this question.