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Women, culture, and development : a study of human capabilities /

Contributor(s): Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947- | Glover, Jonathan | World Institute for Development Economics Research.
Series: Studies in development economics: Publisher: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1995Description: xi, 481 p. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0198289170; 9780198289173:; 0198289642 (pbk).Subject(s): Women's rights | Sex role | Women in development | Sexos, Papel de los | Mujeres en el desarrollo | Society Role of WomenDDC classification: 305.42
Contents:
Women's equality : a case study. A matter of survival : women's right to employment in India and Bangladesh / Martha Chen -- Women's equality : methodology, foundations. Human capabilities, female human beings / Martha C. Nussbaum -- The research programme of development ethics / Jonathan Glover -- Justice, capabilities, and vulnerabilities / Onora O'Neill -- Functioning and capability : the foundations of Sen's and Nussbaum's development ethic, part 2 / David A. Crocker.
Pragmatism and moral objectivity / Hilary Putnam -- Democracy and rationality : a dialogue with Hilary Putnam / Linda Alcoff -- Cultural complexity, moral interdependence, and the global dialogical community / Seyla Benhabib -- Women's equality : justice, law, and reason. Gender inequality and theories of justice / Amartya Sen -- Inequalities between the sexes in different cultural contexts / Susan Moller Okin -- Why not a feminist theory of justice? / Ruth Anna Putnam.
Gender, caste, and law / Cass R. Sunstein -- Emotions and women's capabilities / Martha C. Nussbaum -- A note on the value of gender-identification / Christine M. Korsgaard -- Women's equality : regional perspectives. Gender inequality in China and cultural relativism / Xiaorong Li -- Inequality in capabilities between men and women in Mexico / Margarita M. Valdés -- Femininity, equality, and personhood / Roop Rekha Verma -- Recovering Igbo traditions : a case for indigenous women's organizations in development / Nkiru Nzegwu.
Summary: This acute examination of the quality of women's life addresses a variety of particularly urgent questions. It develops a universal account of women's quality of life and in doing so confronts issues of cultural relativism. An account of gender justice and women's equality is proposed in various areas in which quality of life is measured.
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Women's equality : a case study. A matter of survival : women's right to employment in India and Bangladesh / Martha Chen -- Women's equality : methodology, foundations. Human capabilities, female human beings / Martha C. Nussbaum -- The research programme of development ethics / Jonathan Glover -- Justice, capabilities, and vulnerabilities / Onora O'Neill -- Functioning and capability : the foundations of Sen's and Nussbaum's development ethic, part 2 / David A. Crocker.

Pragmatism and moral objectivity / Hilary Putnam -- Democracy and rationality : a dialogue with Hilary Putnam / Linda Alcoff -- Cultural complexity, moral interdependence, and the global dialogical community / Seyla Benhabib -- Women's equality : justice, law, and reason. Gender inequality and theories of justice / Amartya Sen -- Inequalities between the sexes in different cultural contexts / Susan Moller Okin -- Why not a feminist theory of justice? / Ruth Anna Putnam.

Gender, caste, and law / Cass R. Sunstein -- Emotions and women's capabilities / Martha C. Nussbaum -- A note on the value of gender-identification / Christine M. Korsgaard -- Women's equality : regional perspectives. Gender inequality in China and cultural relativism / Xiaorong Li -- Inequality in capabilities between men and women in Mexico / Margarita M. Valdés -- Femininity, equality, and personhood / Roop Rekha Verma -- Recovering Igbo traditions : a case for indigenous women's organizations in development / Nkiru Nzegwu.

This acute examination of the quality of women's life addresses a variety of particularly urgent questions. It develops a universal account of women's quality of life and in doing so confronts issues of cultural relativism. An account of gender justice and women's equality is proposed in various areas in which quality of life is measured.

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