North South University Library OPACWomen, culture and development :
Women, culture and development : a study of human capabilities /
edited by Martha C. Nussbaum and Jonathan Glover
- Oxford : Clarendon Press, c1995.
- xi, 48 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm.
- Wider studies in development economics .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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 which women's quality of life is equal to that of men. This examination of women's quality of life addresses questions which have a particular urgency, and aims to describe the basic situation of all women. The contributors confront the issue of cultural relativism, criticizing the approach which, in its desire to respect different cultural traditions, can result in indifference
0198289642
Women`s right
Sex role
Women in development
HQ1236 / .W66 1995
305.42 / W872
Includes bibliographies and index.
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 which women's quality of life is equal to that of men. This examination of women's quality of life addresses questions which have a particular urgency, and aims to describe the basic situation of all women. The contributors confront the issue of cultural relativism, criticizing the approach which, in its desire to respect different cultural traditions, can result in indifference
0198289642
Women`s right
Sex role
Women in development
HQ1236 / .W66 1995
305.42 / W872