Abstract
Abstract It is not clear how women's experiences and theories based on them can best be used to redress social inequality on the basis of sex difference. Appropriations of Gilligan's attempt to define women's process of moral reasoning in terms of difference risk being interpreted as accounts of female deficiency. However, Code's critique of an important aspect of Gilligan's research, the abortion study, on the grounds that abortion is only experienced by women, fails to fully recognise how abortion can be read as a socially constructed experience. Using a post‐structuralist theory of language, I locate the experience of abortion as a site of contested meaning that plays itself out historically and socially in an attempt to find ways to think and theorise about experiences that do not collapse into essentialism.
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