{"product_id":"women-culture-and-development","title":"Women, Culture, and Development","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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,\n\u003cbr\u003eanthropology, 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\n\u003cbr\u003eand 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\n\u003cbr\u003ewhich 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\n\u003cbr\u003eall 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 approach 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\n\u003cbr\u003eto 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,\n\u003cbr\u003eand 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\n\u003cbr\u003eR.Sunstein, Christine M.Korsgaard, Catherine Lutz, Xiaorong Li, Margarita M.Valdes, Nkiru Nzegwu\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43968559907054,"sku":"9780198289647","price":116.07,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198289647.jpg?v=1706257898","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/women-culture-and-development","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}