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100			_aGoyal, Ashima
245			_aWomen making choices: masked but aware?
260			_c2007
300			_ap.409-37.
362			_aSep-Dec
520			_aAmartya 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 other-regarding choices are not irrational because altruism has not only instrinsic, 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 mis-interpreted 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. - Reproduced.
650			_aWomen
773			_aIndian Journal of Gender Studies
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909			_a77305
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