Amartya sen's work and ideas: A gender perspective / edited by Bina Agarwal

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Routledge, 2005. London:Description: 350ISBN:

9780415373203

Subject(s):

Economics, Feminist

DDC classification:

330.082 AMA

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Amartya Sen: A Biographical Note; Exploring the Challenges of Amartya Sen's Work and Ideas: An Introduction; Articles;-- 1. Gender and the Foundations of Social Choice: The Role of Situated Agency;-- 2. Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements: Sen and Social Justice;-- 3. Sen's Capability Approach and Gender Inequality: Selecting Relevant Capabilities;-- 4. Intra-household Inequality: A Challenge for the Capability Approach?;-- 5. Development as Empowerment;-- 6. Development as Freedom -- and as What Else?-- 7. Globalization and Women's Paid Work: Expanding Freedom?8. Slavery, Freedom, and Sen;-- 9. Does Contraception Benefit Women? Structure, Agency, and Well-Being in Rural Mexico;-- 10. Sen, Ethics, and Democracy;-- 11. ""Missing Women"": Revisiting the Debate;-- 12. The Human Development Paradigm: Operationalizing Sen's Ideas on Capabilities;-- 13. Continuing the Conversation;-- 14. Capabilities, Lists, and Public Reason: Continuing the Conversation; Notes on Contributors; Index.

Summary: This unique volume is the first to examine Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's ideas through the lens of gender. His humanitarian approach to economics has been crucial to the development of several aspects of feminist economics and gender analysis. This book outlines the range and usefulness of his work for gender analysis while also exploring some of its silences and implicit assumptions. The result is a collection of groundbreaking and insightful essays which cover major topics in Sen's work, such as the capability approach, justice, freedom, social choice, agency, missing women and development an.

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Amartya Sen: A Biographical Note; Exploring the Challenges of Amartya Sen's Work and Ideas: An Introduction; Articles;--
1. Gender and the Foundations of Social Choice: The Role of Situated Agency;--
2. Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements: Sen and Social Justice;--
3. Sen's Capability Approach and Gender Inequality: Selecting Relevant Capabilities;--
4. Intra-household Inequality: A Challenge for the Capability Approach?;--
5. Development as Empowerment;--
6. Development as Freedom --
and as What Else?--
7. Globalization and Women's Paid Work: Expanding Freedom?8. Slavery, Freedom, and Sen;--
9. Does Contraception Benefit Women? Structure, Agency, and Well-Being in Rural Mexico;--
10. Sen, Ethics, and Democracy;--
11. ""Missing Women"": Revisiting the Debate;--
12. The Human Development Paradigm: Operationalizing Sen's Ideas on Capabilities;--
13. Continuing the Conversation;--
14. Capabilities, Lists, and Public Reason: Continuing the Conversation; Notes on Contributors; Index.

This unique volume is the first to examine Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's ideas through the lens of gender. His humanitarian approach to economics has been crucial to the development of several aspects of feminist economics and gender analysis. This book outlines the range and usefulness of his work for gender analysis while also exploring some of its silences and implicit assumptions. The result is a collection of groundbreaking and insightful essays which cover major topics in Sen's work, such as the capability approach, justice, freedom, social choice, agency, missing women and development an.

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