ABSTRACT
One of the claims pervading this book is that a revived feminist liberalism must engage the challenge of intersectionality. Can this school of feminism generalize about women while remaining attentive to salient diff erences among them? Can feminist liberalism make room for the self-interpretations of diverse women? is chapter begins by posing these questions to Nussbaum’s HCA. It then examines the problem that adaptive preferences pose for her feminist liberalism and considers her attempts to resolve this. is issue receives extended treatment because it has been argued that adaptive preferences pose an insuperable obstacle to any reconciliation of liberalism and feminism. is chapter’s concluding section sketches a slightly diff erent way of understanding the HCA, one that tries to avoid some of the conundrums currently entangling it.
