Capabilities, Gender, Equality

Preface; Introduction: capabilities, challenges, and the omnipresence of political liberalism Martha Nussbaum; Part I. The Capabilities Approach: 1. Perfectionist liberalism and political liberalism Martha Nussbaum; 2. Rawlsian social-contract theory and the severely disabled Henry S. Richardson; 3. Logos, pathos and ethos in Martha 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 Guerin 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 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 Nussbaum: towards a reformed Christian view of capabilities Jonathan Warner; Index.