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The Indebted Woman
- Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism
Engelsk Paperback
The Indebted Woman
- Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism
Engelsk Paperback

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Women, and particularly poor women, have become essential cogs in the wheel of financialized capitalism. Globally, women are responsible for managing household debt, 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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
248
ISBN-13:
9781503636903
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1503636909
Udg. Dato:
19 sep 2023
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
Stanford University Press
Oplagsdato:
19 sep 2023
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