Women and Human Development : The Capabilities Approach Book

	Preface	xiii
	Acknowledgments	xv
	Introduction: Feminism and International Development	1
I.	Development and Sex Equality	1
II.	The Capabilities Approach: An Overview	4
III.	The Capabilities Approach: Sen and Nussbaum	11
IV.	Two Women Trying to Flourish	15
V.	India: Sex Equality in Theory, Not Reality	24
VI.	Sameness and Difference	31
Chapter 1	In Defense of Universal Values	34
I.	Challenges to Cross-Cultural Norms	34
II.	Three Arguments: Culture, Diversity, Paternalism	41
III.	Defects of Standard Economic Approaches	59
IV.	Central Human Capabilities	70
V.	Functioning and Capability	86
VI.	Capabilities and Human Rights	96
VII.	Justification and Implementation: Democratic Politics	101
VIII.	Capabilities and Women's Lives: A Role for Public Action	106
Chapter 2	Anaptive Preferences and Women's Options	111
I.	Preference and the Good: Two Unsatisfactory Extremes	112
II.	Problems with the Concept of Preference	119
III.	Welfarism: The Internal Critique	122
IV.	Adaptive Preferences and the Rejection of Welfarism	135
V.	Desire and Justification	148
VI.	Political Stability and the Depth of Habit	161
Chapter 3	The Role of Religion	167
I.	Religious Liberty and Sex Equality: A Dilemma	168
II.	Secular Humanists and Traditionalists	174
III.	Two Orienting Principles	187
IV.	Central Capabilities as Compelling State Interests	198
V.	Non-Religion, Establishment, Balancing	206
VI.	Applying the Approach: The Three Cases	212
VII.	Children and Parents	230
VIII.	Capabilities and Loss	235
Chapter 4	Love, Care, and Dignity	241
I.	A Home for Love and Violence	242
II.	Capabilities: Each Family Member as End	245
III.	The Family: Not "by Nature"	252
IV.	The Family as Creation of State Action	261
V.	Women's Care Giving: "An Eminently Artificial Thing"	264
VI.	Political Liberalism and the Family: Rawls's Dilemma	270
VII.	Bargaining Approaches and Women's Options	283
VIII.	Two Debates in International Feminism	290
	Conclusion	298
	Index	305