Feminismo y justicia en la obra de Martha Nussbaum

Abstract

Nussbaum's work on capabilities has often focused on the unequal freedoms and opportunities of women, and she has developed a distinctive type of feminism. During the 1980s Nussbaum began a collaboration with economist Amartya Sen on issues of development and ethics. With Sen, she proposed and promoted the capabilities approach to development, which views capabilities as the constitutive parts of development, and poverty as capability deprivation. This contrasts with traditional utilitarian views that see development purely in terms of economic growth, and poverty purely as income deprivation. It is also universalist, and therefore contrasts with relativist approaches to development. Much of the work is presented from an Aristotelian perspective.