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Women and Human Development The Capabilities Approach

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ISBN-10: 0521003857

ISBN-13: 9780521003858

Edition: 2001

Authors: Martha C. Nussbaum

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Martha Nussbaum proposes, in this text, a new kind of feminism that is genuinely international, argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and public policy, and aims to provoke thought about justice.
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Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/4/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 338
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Feminism and International Development
Development and Sex Equality
The Capabilities Approach: An Overview
The Capabilities Approach: Sen and Nussbaum
Two Women Trying to Flourish
India: Sex Equality in Theory, Not Reality
Sameness and Difference
In Defense of Universal Values
Challenges to Cross-Cultural Norms
Three Arguments: Culture, Diversity, Paternalism
Defects of Standard Economic Approaches
Central Human Capabilities
Functioning and Capability
Capabilities and Human Rights
Justification and Implementation: Democratic Politics
Capabilities and Women's Lives: A Role for Public Action
Anaptive Preferences and Women's Options
Preference and the Good: Two Unsatisfactory Extremes
Problems with the Concept of Preference
Welfarism: The Internal Critique
Adaptive Preferences and the Rejection of Welfarism
Desire and Justification
Political Stability and the Depth of Habit
The Role of Religion
Religious Liberty and Sex Equality: A Dilemma
Secular Humanists and Traditionalists
Two Orienting Principles
Central Capabilities as Compelling State Interests
Non-Religion, Establishment, Balancing
Applying the Approach: The Three Cases
Children and Parents
Capabilities and Loss
Love, Care, and Dignity
A Home for Love and Violence
Capabilities: Each Family Member as End
The Family: Not "by Nature"
The Family as Creation of State Action
Women's Care Giving: "An Eminently Artificial Thing"
Political Liberalism and the Family: Rawls's Dilemma
Bargaining Approaches and Women's Options
Two Debates in International Feminism
Conclusion
Index