Adaptive preferences and women's empowerment
Women and other oppressed and deprived people sometimes collude with the forces that perpetuate injustice against them. Women's acceptance of their lesser claim on household resources like food, their positive attitudes toward clitoridectemy and infibulations, their acquiescence to violence at the hands of their husbands, and their sometimes fatalistic attitudes toward their own poverty or suffering are all examples of "adaptive preferences," wherein women participate in their own deprivation. …
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- Full title :Adaptive preferences and women's empowerment / Serene J. Khader.
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Women and other oppressed and deprived people sometimes collude with the forces that perpetuate injustice against them. Women's acceptance of their lesser claim on household resources like food, their positive attitudes toward clitoridectemy and infibulations, their acquiescence to violence at the hands of their husbands, and their sometimes fatalistic attitudes toward their own poverty or suffering are all examples of "adaptive preferences," wherein women participate in their own deprivation. This book offers a definition of adaptive preference and a moral framework for responding to adaptive preferences in development practice. Khader defines adaptive preferences as deficits in the capacity to lead a flourishing human life that are causally related to deprivation and argues that public institutions should conduct deliberative interventions to transform the adaptive preferences of deprived people. Khader claims that adaptive preference identification requires a commitment to moral universalism, but this commitment need not be incompatible with a respect for culturally variant conceptions of the good. She illustrates her arguments with examples from real-world development practice.
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- Publication Date:©2011.
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
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- Description:238 p. ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0199777888, 9780199777884, 019977787X, 9780199777877
- oclc:ocn773797185
- LC Classification:HN25
- Dewey Decimal:179.7
Table of Contents
A deliberative perfectionist approach to adaptive preference intervention -- Adaptive preferences and choice: are adaptive preferences autonomy deficits? -- Adaptive preferences and agency: the selective effects of adaptive preferences -- The deliberative perfectionist approach, paternalism, and cultural diversity -- Reimagining intervention: adaptive preferences and the paradoxes of empowerment.
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