Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment

Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment
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Publisher : OUP USA
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9780199777877
ISBN-13 : 019977787X
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Book Synopsis Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment by : Serene J. Khader

Download or read book Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment written by Serene J. Khader and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serene Khader's book on adaptive preference is a book that should be read by anyone interested in oppression and how to struggle against and overcome it. According to many feminist theories of oppression, a primary problem for overcoming oppression is that the victims become accustomed to their circumstances and even come to prefer them. Their preference for their oppressive conditions then form practical and moral obstacles to changing them, since the oppressed act in ways to further those conditions and it seems cruel or unfair to take from the oppressed what they claim to prefer. Such preferences are called adaptive preferences, and transforming them seems to be an important goal of institutions that aim to improve the lives of the oppressed. This book is about how and why public institutions should intervene in the lives and societies of oppressed persons with adaptive preferences to encourage their flourishing. Although Khader explicitly targets impoverished and oppressed women in the global South, her arguments should apply equally to other contexts of oppression and deprivation.


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