Bertsch says she thought Liebert was writing a term paper and wished to examine Gilligan's confidential transcripts, which include 144 interviews with children, students and adults regarding moral decisions.
"The idea that this was going to be published in anything other than his homework--or maybe possibly his senior thesis--was never communicated," Bertsch says. "The words 'Atlantic Monthly' and 'book' were never mentioned."
Sommers says she told Liebert to identify himself only as a Harvard student--and never called Gilligan herself--because she assumed she'd be turned down.
But Sommers' failure to contact Gilligan personally even once spurred The Boston Globe's Alex Beam to dub the Atlantic Monthly's article an "attempted drive-by character assassination" in his column last Friday.
"You have to ask yourself, why is someone taking on a giant?" says Jean E. Rhodes, an associate professor of psychology at University of Illinois.
"There's an agenda here," she says, noting that both Sommers and Newt Gingrich are scholars at the same think tank, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). "They get paid to defend the patriarchy."
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