In 2006 the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize
for its innovative microfinancing operations. This path-breaking
study of gender, grassroots globalization, and neoliberalism in
Bangladesh looks critically at the Grameen Bank and three of the
leading NGOs in the country. Amid euphoria over the benefits of
microfinance, Lamia Karim offers a timely and sobering perspective
on the practical, and possibly detrimental, realities for poor
women inducted into microfinance operations.
In a series of ethnographic cases, Karim shows how NGOs use social
codes of honor and shame to shape the conduct of women and to
further an agenda of capitalist expansion. These unwritten policies
subordinate poor women to multiple levels of debt that often lead
to increased violence at the household and community levels,
thereby weakening women's ability to resist the onslaught of market
forces.
A compelling critique of the relationship between powerful NGOs and
the financially strapped women beholden to them for capital, this
book cautions us to be vigilant about the social realities within
which women and loans circulate--realities that often have adverse
effects on the lives of the very women these operations are meant
to help.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
March 2011 |
| First published: |
March 2011 |
| Authors: |
Lamia Karim
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
296 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8166-7095-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8166-7095-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780816670956 |
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