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Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment$
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Serene J. Khader

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780199777884

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199777884.001.0001

Introduction: Adaptive Preferences and Global Justice

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Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment
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Serene J. Khader

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199777884.003.0001

This introduction describes the deliberative perfectionist approach to adaptive preference intervention in a nontechnical fashion and situates it in the context of global justice. It includes an explanation of how the deliberative perfectionist approach responds to three dilemmas facing feminist theorists of global justice—the global justice dilemma that opposes understanding structural inequality to endorsing local-level intervention, the culture dilemma that opposes commitment to women's rights to a commitment to respecting cultural diversity, and the agency dilemma that opposes seeing women as victims to seeing them as agents.

Keywords:   global justice, feminism, agency, cultural diversity, development ethics

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