The indebted woman : kinship, sexuality, and capitalism /

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Author / Creator:Guérin, Isabelle, author.
Imprint:Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]
©2023
Description:xvi, 229 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Culture and economic life
Culture and economic life.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13159505
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Other authors / contributors:Santosh Kumar (Social worker), author.
Venkatasubramanian, G. (Govindan), author.
ISBN:9781503636316
1503636313
9781503636903
1503636909
9781503636910
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Poor women have become essential cogs in the wheel of financialized capitalism. Globally, it is most often women who manage household debt to make ends meet, and that debt has exploded over the last decade, reaching an all-time high after the COVID-19 pandemic. Across various categories of loans, including subprime lending, microcredit policies, and consumer loans, as well as rent and utilities, women are overrepresented as clients and managers, and are being enfolded into the system. The Indebted Woman discusses the crucial yet invisible roles poor women play in making and consolidating debt and credit markets. Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar and G. Venkatasubramanian spent over two decades observing a credit market that specifically targets women in the Indian countryside of east-central Tamil Nadu. They found that paying off debts required labor, frequently involved sexual transactions, and shaped women's bodies and subjectivities. Bringing together ethnography, statistical surveys, and financial diaries, they offer for the first time a comprehensive theory for this sexual division of debt that goes far beyond the Indian case, exposing the ways capitalism transforms womanhood, and how this transformation in turn fuels capitalism"--
Other form:Online version: Guérin, Isabelle. Indebted woman Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2023 9781503636910

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