Gasper, Des; Staveren, Irene van - In: Feminist Economics 9 (2003) 2-3, pp. 137-161
To what extent can Amartya Sen's ideas on freedom, especially his conceptualization of development as freedom, enrich … feminist economics? Sen's notion of freedom (as the capability to achieve valued ends) has many attractions and provides … important opportunities to analyze gender inequalities. At the same time, Sen's recent emphasis on freedom as the dominant value …