Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities (Wider Studies in Development Economics) - Softcover

 
9780198289647: Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities (Wider Studies in Development Economics)
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ISBN 10: 0198289642 ISBN 13: 9780198289647
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA, 1996

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Women, a majority of the world's population, receive only a small proportion of its opportunities and benefits. According to the 1993 UN Human Development Report, there is no country in the world in which women's quality of life is equal to that of men. This examination of women's quality of life addresses questions which have a particular urgency, and aims to describe the basic situation of all women. The contributors confront the issue of cultural relativism, criticizing the approach which, in its desire to respect different cultural traditions, can result in indifference to injustice. Gender justice and women's equality is then proposed in various areas in which quality of life is measured. Like its predecessor, The Quality of Life, this volume encourages the reader to think critically about the central fundamental concepts used in development economics, and suggests major criticisms of current economic approaches from that fundamental viewpoint. In addition to scholars of women's and gender studies, this work will be of interest to economists, philosophers, political scientists, and sociologists.

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This examination of women's quality of life thus addresses questions which have a particular urgency. It aims to describe the basic situation of all women and so develops a universal account that can answer the charges of 'Western imperialism' frequently made against such accounts.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press, USA
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0198289642
ISBN 13 
9780198289647
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
496
Herausgeber
Nussbaum Martha
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