another researcher, "feminine personality comes to define itself in relation and connection to other people more than masculine personality does" (Gilligan 7). What this means is that the concept and practice of separation, and its high value in relation to individuality in this society, are the result of male domination of society. With her book Gilligan hopes to correct the social imbalance of valuing separation too highly and community not highly enough:
Male and female voices typically speak of the importance of different truths, the former of the role of separation as it defines and empowers the self, the latter of the ongoing process of attachment that creates and sustains the human community (Gilligan 156).
Gilligan argues that the two disparate views of men and women need to be brought together for the sake of men, women and the community. Too much emphasis on the male perspective results in a separated community of individuals whose identity is bound up in that separation and that individuality, the sense that the self is the essential power
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