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Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities
Martha C. Nussbaum and Jonathan Glover
Abstract
This volume, which grows out of The Quality of Life (eds. Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, 1993), combines philosophical inquiry with economic concerns regarding women's equality in the developing world. Adopting Amartya Sen's capability framework, international contributors tackle issues of cultural relativism vs. cultural imperialism on the one hand, and questions of local traditions vs. universalist critical judgement on the other. The chief aim of this work is to critically explore the relationship between culture and justice as pertinent to women's development, with special attention paid ... More
Keywords: capability, cultural imperialism, cultural relativism, development economics, development ethics, justice, women's equality
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| Print publication date: 1995 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198289647 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/0198289642.001.0001 |
