Capabilities, Gender, Equality: Towards Fundamental Entitlements

ISBN-13: 9781108468831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 482 str.

Flavio Comim; Martha C. Nussbaum

Opis

Provides unique reflections on the capability approach and its relevance to new human development policies and political liberalism.

Recenzje

'It is important to explore alternative approaches to the interpretation and use of the idea of capabilities, and this wide-ranging collection of essays makes a significant contribution to the on-going debates on the subject. It is a very welcome addition to the literature.' Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, Economics 1998

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction: capabilities, challenges, and the omnipresence of political liberalism Martha C. Nussbaum; Part I. The Capabilities Approach: 1. Perfectionist liberalism and political liberalism Martha C. Nussbaum; 2. Rawlsian social-contract theory and the severely disabled Henry S. Richardson; 3. Logos, pathos and ethos in Martha C. Nussbaum's capabilities approach to human development Des Gasper; 4. Building capabilities: a new paradigm for human development Flavio Comim; 5. Capabilities or functionings? Anatomy of a debate Marc Fleurbaey; 6. From humans to all of life: Nussbaum's transformation of dignity Jeremy Bendik-Keymer; Part II. Gender: 7. Questioning the gender-based division of labour: the contribution of the capabilities approach to feminist economics Ulrike Knoblock; 8. Primary goods, capabilities, and the millennium development target for gender equity in education Elaine Unterhalter and Harry Brighouse; 9. The weight of institutions on women's capabilities: how far can microfinance help? Muriel Gilardone, Isabelle Guérin and Jane Palier; 10. The capabilities of women: towards an alternative framework for development Santosh Mehrotra; 11. Applying the capabilities approach to disability, poverty, and gender Patricia Welch Saleeby; 12. Educational transformation, gender justice and Nussbaum's capabilities Melanie Walker; 13. The social contract, unpaid child care and women's income capability Hilde Bojer; Part III. Equality: 14. Lists and thresholds: comparing the Doyal–Gough theory of human need with Nussbaum's capabilities approach Ian Gough; 15. Nussbaum, Rawls, and the ecological limits of justice: using capability ceilings to resolve capability conflicts Breena Holland; 16. Social justice and Nussbaum's concept of the person John M. Alexander; 17. God and Martha C. Nussbaum: towards a Reformed Christian view of capabilities Jonathan Warner; Index.