Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment

Zusatztext Filling an important gap in the literature, Serene J. Khader's first book deftly tackles a topic of growing importance as questions of individual human rights, agency and empowerment increasingly run up against questions of multiculturalism in development policy and pluralism in ethics ... this work makes an exhaustive analysis of a difficult and important problem, offering both practical and philosophical guidance for thinking about adaptive preferences. It is an important contribution to studies in which questions of multiculturalism and moral relativism complicate the search for answers. Khader's book also contributes to this discussion by reclaiming the dignity, empowerment, and sense of self-worth of individual women who exhibit inappropriately adaptive preferences, an important move in a discourse that ultimately seeks improvement of the human condition. Informationen zum Autor Serene Khader is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Wheaton College, in Massachusetts. She is also a women's rights activist who has worked in both national and international contests, and her activist experience informs her philosophical work. Klappentext Khader offers a deliberative perfectionist approach to identifying and responding to adaptive preferences- deprived people's preferences that perpetuate their deprivation. Zusammenfassung Khader offers a deliberative perfectionist approach to identifying and responding to adaptive preferences-- deprived people's preferences that perpetuate their deprivation.

Product details

• Authors: Serene J. Khader, Khader Serene J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.09.2011
• EAN: 9780199777884
• ISBN: 978-0-19-977788-4
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in Feminist Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; USA, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Feminism & feminist theory, United States of America, USA, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Feminism and feminist theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies