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Gilligan's Answers to Atlantic Attack Leave Critics Guessing

"There was a tacit assumption that you would never say anything critical of the party line," Broughton says. "I broke that rule."

But Gilligan says that Broughton's study endangered the anonymity of subjects by quoting long passages from the transcripts without the subjects' permission.

Gilligan says the incident has heightened her diligence in guarding the sensitive transcripts-- she wouldn't let Sommers see her work for the same reason.

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"I would not like to see paragraphs of some woman's abortion decision quoted in the Atlantic Monthly," she says.

Under Wraps

Meanwhile, in a letter to the editor to the Atlantic Monthly, Gilligan writes she is in the process of making her work more public, donating it to Radcliffe's Murray Research Center.

Murray Associate Director Jacquelyn B. James confirms that Gilligan has formally agreed to transfer much of her data to the Murray next month. But Gilligan will maintain oversight over who can access the research.

And the professor will not be handing over two of the three data sets from In a Different Voice.

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