Is Utilitarianism Bad for Women?

Abstract Is Utilitarianism Bad for Women? Philosophers and policy-makers concerned with the ethics, economics, and politics of development argue that the phenomenon of ‘adaptive preference’ makes preference-utilitarian measures of well-being untenable. Poor women in the Global South, they sugge...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: H. E. Baber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Western Ontario 2017-12-01
Series:Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
Online Access:https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/article/view/3113