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

by Nussbaum, Martha Craven; Glover, Jonathan; World Institute for Development Economics Research.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Studies in development economics: Publisher: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1995Description: xi, 481 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0198289170; 0198289642.Subject(s): Women's rights | Sex role | Women in development
Contents:
Introduction / Martha C. Nussbaum -- A Matter of Survival: Women's Right to Employment in India and Bangladesh / Martha Chen -- Human Capabilities, Female Human Beings / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Commentator /Susan Wolf -- 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 / 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 --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.
Commentator / Catherine Lutz -- A Note on the Value of Gender-Identification / Christine M. Korsgaard --Gender Inequality in China and Cultural Relativism /Xiaorong Li -- Inequality in Capabilities Between Men and Women in Mexico / Margarita M. Valdes --Femininity, Equality, and Personhood / Roop Rekha Verma -- Recovering Igbo Traditions: A Case for Indigenous Women's Organizations in Development /Nkiru Nzegwu.
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"Prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) of the United Nations University."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Martha C. Nussbaum -- A Matter of Survival: Women's Right to Employment in India and Bangladesh / Martha Chen -- Human Capabilities, Female Human Beings / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Commentator /Susan Wolf -- 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 / 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 --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.

Commentator / Catherine Lutz -- A Note on the Value of Gender-Identification / Christine M. Korsgaard --Gender Inequality in China and Cultural Relativism /Xiaorong Li -- Inequality in Capabilities Between Men and Women in Mexico / Margarita M. Valdes --Femininity, Equality, and Personhood / Roop Rekha Verma -- Recovering Igbo Traditions: A Case for Indigenous Women's Organizations in Development /Nkiru Nzegwu.

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