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Originally conceived as small-scale loans allowing impoverished
women to invest in informal sector economic opportunities,
microfinance programs have grown rapidly across the globe over the
past two decades to become the most common development tool used to
empower women in low- and middle-income countries. Women and
Microfinance in the Global South incorporates a meta-synthesis of
thirty qualitative empirical cases from Asia, Africa, and Latin
America to explore the links between microfinance and women's
empowerment, questioning how microfinance facilitates the economic
and socio-political empowerment of women. The theoretical framework
assesses both positive and negative outcomes of microfinance at the
grassroots level, considering how such market-based interventions
intersect with patriarchal beliefs and practices, and analyses the
different mechanisms through which microfinance can empower or
disempower women. It will interest scholars of developmental
studies and women's issues, as well as practitioners, NGOs, and
policymakers.
In this book, sociologist Lynn Horton explores how the most dynamic
sectors of the global economy-finance and technology-are shaping
new forms of elite masculinity. She offers fresh insights into the
often overlooked links between economic inequalities and the
identity politics of gender and race. Through analysis of the lives
and discourse of utra-visible male billionaires, Horton examines
how extreme accumulations of wealth are both imbued with gendered
celebrity and moral authority and harshly contested. She identifies
the ways neoliberalism as an ideological project, advanced by
elite-funded networks of think tanks and advocacy groups, draws on
such masculinities to amplify and naturalize market-centered
assumptions, values, and practices. Gender systems-relational and
ranked constructs of masculinity/femininity-permeate neoliberal
discourse of markets, the state, and the household. Horton also
details the tensions and ties between technocratic elite
masculinities which eschew open sexism and discrimination and
rightwing populist mobilization of gendered and racialized
anti-elite discourse.
Drawing on testimonies from contra collaborators and ex-combatants,
as well as pro-Sandinista peasants, this book presents a dynamic
account of the growing divisions between peasants from the area of
Quilali who took up arms in defense of revolutionary programs and
ideals such as land reform and equality and those who opposed the
FSLN.
"Peasants in Arms" details the role of local elites in organizing
the first anti-Sandinista uprising in 1980 and their subsequent
rise to positions of field command in the contras. Lynn Horton
explores the internal factors that led a majority of peasants to
turn against the revolution and the ways in which the military
draft, and family and community pressures reinforced conflict and
undermined mid-decade FSLN policy shifts that attempted to win back
peasant support.
In this book, sociologist Lynn Horton explores how the most dynamic
sectors of the global economy-finance and technology-are shaping
new forms of elite masculinity. She offers fresh insights into the
often overlooked links between economic inequalities and the
identity politics of gender and race. Through analysis of the lives
and discourse of utra-visible male billionaires, Horton examines
how extreme accumulations of wealth are both imbued with gendered
celebrity and moral authority and harshly contested. She identifies
the ways neoliberalism as an ideological project, advanced by
elite-funded networks of think tanks and advocacy groups, draws on
such masculinities to amplify and naturalize market-centered
assumptions, values, and practices. Gender systems-relational and
ranked constructs of masculinity/femininity-permeate neoliberal
discourse of markets, the state, and the household. Horton also
details the tensions and ties between technocratic elite
masculinities which eschew open sexism and discrimination and
rightwing populist mobilization of gendered and racialized
anti-elite discourse.
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