Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment

Name: Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment
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ISBN: 9780199777877

ISBN-10: 019977787X

ISBN-13: 9780199777877

Edition: 2011

Authors: Serene J. Khader

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Women and other oppressed and deprived people sometimes collude with the forces that perpetuate injustice against them. Women's acceptance of their lesser claim on household resources like food, their positive attitudes toward clitoridectemy and infibulations, their acquiescence to violence at the hands of their husbands, and their sometimes fatalistic attitudes toward their own poverty or suffering are all examples of "adaptive preferences," wherein women participate in their own deprivation. Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowermentoffers a definition of adaptive preference and a moral framework for responding to adaptive preferences in development practice. Khader defines adaptive…

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List price: $37.49
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/13/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Adaptive Preferences and Global Justice



A Deliberative Perfectionist Approach to Adaptive Preference Intervention



Adaptive Preferences and Choice: Are Adaptive Preferences Autonomy Deficits?



Adaptive Preferences and Agency: The Selective Effects of Adaptive Preferences



The Deliberative Perfectionist Approach, Paternalism, and Cultural Diversity



Reimagining Intervention: Adaptive Preferences and the Paradoxes of Empowerment


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