@article{ref1,
title="Women Making Choices",
journal="Indian journal of gender studies",
year="2007",
author="Goyal, Ashima",
volume="14",
number="3",
pages="409-437",
abstract="Amartya Sen's capability approach is very useful to analyse how choices affect the potential of women, once the position that women lack self-awareness when they make their choices is dropped. Women's agency is underestimated. Women's 'otherregarding choices' are not irrational because altruism has not only intrinsic, but also instrumental value as a source of social capital; it may even increase some types of freedom. The mask of conformity women wear in preferring less to more can be misinterpreted as a lack of awareness. The rapidity with which even poor women make use of opportunities that suit their other-regarding choices and the special modes of functioning they have developed as a result prove that the mask of women's conformity is a shallow one.<p />",
language="",
issn="0971-5215",
doi="10.1177/097152150701400303",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097152150701400303"
}