Sen's capability approach and Nussbaum's
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DES GASPER
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The paper assesses Sen's more abstract version of capabilities theory, Nussbaum's more substantive Aristotelian version and attempts to apply such conceptions to women's lives. Sen's capability approach is a helpful intervention in the discourses of mainstream Western welfare economics and moral phi