Amartya Sen i ekonomia feministyczna

• Authors: Katarzyna Guczalska

Title variants

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Amartya Sen and Feminist Economics

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The problems related to discrimination of women is not treated by Amartya Sen as marginal. To the contrary, the issue of social inequality of women belongs to the mainstream of the Nobel laureate’s interests, and he himself is perceived as a representative of the socalled feminist economics. In this article, I refer to selected household and capitalist market analyses carrie out by Sen and leftist feminists: Ruth Pearson and Sylvia Chant. I find many interesting parallels between the theses formulated by the feminist scholars and the ideas promulgated by Sen, which I juxtapose emphasising a certain common research frontier and feminist objectives. In particular, the text elucidates the following issues: what feminist economics is; what the discussion with classical economic assumptions concerning household consists in; what the discussion with the assumptions concerning the functioning of an enterprise (and women working there) within the global capitalist economy consists in; what Sen’s change in the approach to the issue of poverty consists in. One important thread that accompanies the above considerations is the critique of the paternalistic tradition, which attributes lower status to women than to men.

Keywords

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paternalism; discrimination; feminist economics; R. Pearson; S. Chant; A. Sen

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk / Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
• Journal: Prakseologia
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 156
• Pages: 225-250

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Guczalska

• Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie, ul. Rakowicka 27, 31-510 Kraków

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