Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Questions of gender, injustice and equality pervade all our lives, and as such, the capabilities or 'human development' approach to understanding well-being and basic political entitlements continues to be debated. In this thought-provoking book, a range of authors provide unique reflections on the capabilities approach and, specifically, Martha C. Nussbaum's contributions to issues of gender, equality and political liberalism. Moreover, the authors tackle a broad range of development issues, including those of religion, ecological and environmental justice, social justice, child care, disability and poverty. This is the first book to examine Nussbaum's work in political philosophy in such depth, bringing together a group of distinguished experts with diverse disciplinary perspectives. It also features a unique contribution from Nussbaum herself, in which she offers reactions to the discussion and her latest thoughts on the capabilities approach. Capabilities, Gender, Equality will interest a wide range of readers and policymakers interested in new human development policies.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Introduction: capabilities, challenges, and the omnipresence of political liberalism
• Part I The Capabilities Approach
• 1 Perfectionist liberalism and political liberalism
• 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
• 4 Building capabilities: a new paradigm for human development
• 5 Capabilities or functionings? Anatomy of a debate
• 6 From humans to all of life: Nussbaum's transformation of dignity
• Part II Gender
• 7 Questioning the gender-based division of labour: the contribution of the capabilities approach to feminist economics
• 8 Primary goods, capabilities, and the millennium development target for gender equity in education
• 9 The weight of institutions on women's capabilities: how far can microfinance help?
• 10 The capabilities of women: towards an alternative framework for development
• 11 Applying the capabilities approach to disability, poverty, and gender
• 12 Educational transformation, gender justice and Nussbaum's capabilities
• 13 The social contract, unpaid child care and women's income capability
• Part III Equality
• 14 Lists and thresholds: comparing the Doyal-Gough theory of human need with Nussbaum's capabilities approach
• 15 Nussbaum, Rawls, and the ecological limits of justice: using capability ceilings to resolve capability conflicts
• 16 Social justice and Nussbaum's concept of the person
• 17 God and Martha Nussbaum: towards a reformed Christian view of capabilities
• Index