This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship
Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected
open access locations. BL Distinguished editors and contributors BL
Addresses questions of some urgency for the question of women's
quality of life BL Inter-disciplinary, ranging over philosophy,
economics, political science, anthropology, law and sociology BL
Combines theory with case-studies BL Accessible to non-specialist
reader BL Sequel to The Quality of Life, edited by Martha Nussbaum
and Amartya Sen, applying the 'capabilities' approach outlined in
that volume BL Topical - challenges 'politically correct'
relativist approaches and discusses the validity of charges of
'cultural imperialism' levelled at Western aid and intervention
policies. 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 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. The contributors confront the issue of
cultural relativism, criticizing the relativist apprach which, in
its desire to respect different cultural traditions, can result in
indifference to injustice. An account of gender justice and women's
equality is then proposed in various areas in which quality of life
is measured. These issues are related throughout to the specific
contexts of India, Bangladesh, China, Mexico, and Nigeria through a
series of case studies. Disciplines represented include philosophy,
economics, political science, anthropology, law, and sociology.
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. Contributors: Martha Nussbaum, Marty Chen, Susan Wolf,
Jonathan Glover, Onora O'Neill, David Crocker, Hilary Putnam, Linda
Alcoff, Amartya Sen, Susan Moller Okin, Ruth Anna Putnam, Cass
R.Sunstein, Christine M.Korsgaard, Catherine Lutz, Xiaorong Li,
Margarita M.Valdes, Nkiru Nzegwu
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