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The Indebted Woman - Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism
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The Indebted Woman - Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism
Series: Culture and Economic Life
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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.
General
Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Culture and Economic Life |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Isabelle Guérin
• Santosh Kumar
• G Venkatasubramanian
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
248 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5036-3690-3 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-5036-3690-9 |
Barcode: |
9781503636903 |
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