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Amartya Sen's work and ideas : a gender perspective / Edited by Bina Agarwal, Jane Humphries & Ingrid Robeyns.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Description: 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415372534
  • 9780415372534
  • 0415373204
  • 9780415373203
Uniform titles:
  • Feminist economics. Special number.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.082 23
  • 330.01 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1381 .A33 2005
Contents:
Exploring the challenges of Amartya Sen's work and ideas: an introduction / Bina Agarwal, Jane Humphries, and Ingrid Robeyns -- 1. Gender and the foundations of social choice: the role of situated agency / Fabienne Peter -- 2. Capabilities as fundamental entitlements: Sen and social justice / Martha C. Nussbaum -- 3. Sen'scapability approach and gender inequality : selecting relevant capabilities / Ingrid Robeyns -- 4. Intra-household inequality: a challenge for the capability approach? / Vegard Iversen -- 5. Development as empowerment / Marianne T. Hill -- 6. Development as freedom and as what else? / Des Gasper and Irene van Staveren -- 7. Globalization and women's paid work: expanding freedom? / Christine M. Koggel -- 8. Slavery, freedom, and Sen / Stanley L. Engerman -- 9. Does contraception benefit women? Structure, agency, and well-being in rural Mexico / Austreberta Nazar Beutelspacher, Emma Zapata Martelo and Veronica Vazquez Garcia -- 10. Sen, ethics, and democracy / Elizabeth Anderson -- 11. "Missing women": revisiting the debate / Stephan Klasen and Claudia Wink -- 12. The human development paradigm: operationalizing Sen's ideas on capabilities / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr -- 13. Continuing the conversation / Amartya Sen talks with Bina Agarwal, Jane Humphries and Ingrid Robeyns -- 14. Capabilities, lists, and public reason: continuing the conversation / Amaratya Sen.
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 and well-being. Perspectives have been drawn from both developing and developed countries, with most of the authors applying Sen's concepts to cultural, geographic and historical contexts which differ from his original applications. -- Back cover.
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"This book was previously published as a special issue of Feminist Economics.".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Exploring the challenges of Amartya Sen's work and ideas: an introduction / Bina Agarwal, Jane Humphries, and Ingrid Robeyns -- 1. Gender and the foundations of social choice: the role of situated agency / Fabienne Peter -- 2. Capabilities as fundamental entitlements: Sen and social justice / Martha C. Nussbaum -- 3. Sen'scapability approach and gender inequality : selecting relevant capabilities / Ingrid Robeyns -- 4. Intra-household inequality: a challenge for the capability approach? / Vegard Iversen -- 5. Development as empowerment / Marianne T. Hill -- 6. Development as freedom and as what else? / Des Gasper and Irene van Staveren -- 7. Globalization and women's paid work: expanding freedom? / Christine M. Koggel -- 8. Slavery, freedom, and Sen / Stanley L. Engerman -- 9. Does contraception benefit women? Structure, agency, and well-being in rural Mexico / Austreberta Nazar Beutelspacher, Emma Zapata Martelo and Veronica Vazquez Garcia -- 10. Sen, ethics, and democracy / Elizabeth Anderson -- 11. "Missing women": revisiting the debate / Stephan Klasen and Claudia Wink -- 12. The human development paradigm: operationalizing Sen's ideas on capabilities / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr -- 13. Continuing the conversation / Amartya Sen talks with Bina Agarwal, Jane Humphries and Ingrid Robeyns -- 14. Capabilities, lists, and public reason: continuing the conversation / Amaratya Sen.

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 and well-being. Perspectives have been drawn from both developing and developed countries, with most of the authors applying Sen's concepts to cultural, geographic and historical contexts which differ from his original applications. -- Back cover.

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