TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Women Making Choices
JO  - Indian journal of gender studies
A1  - Goyal, Ashima
SP  - 409
EP  - 437
VL  - 14
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0971-5215
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097152150701400303
ID  - ref1
ER  -