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This acute examination of the quality of women's life addresses a variety of particularly urgent questions. It develops a universal account of women's quality of life and in doing so confronts issues of cultural relativism. An account of gender justice and women's equality is proposed in various areas in which quality of life is measured. The...

De Anima is one of the most influential and widely-studied of Aristotle's works; this volume offers stimulating discussions of all aspects of this work by leading philosophers, including, in this paperback edition, a new essay by Myles Burnyeat. Covering topics such as the relation between soul and body, sense-perception, imagination, memory,...

Martha Nussbaum articulates a distinctive concept of feminism, rooted in the liberal tradition of political thought, but responsive to radical feminist critiques of that tradition. She maps out a feminism that is concerned with global justice and with the urgent needs of women who live in hunger or illiteracy, or under inherently unequal legal...