@article{fdi:010080393,
  title = {{U}npayable debt : debt, gender, and sex in financialized {I}ndia},
  author = {{G}u{\'e}rin, {I}sabelle and {K}umar, {S}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{I}n recent decades rural {S}outh {I}ndia has witnessed the profound effects of financialization, effects that include growing sexual puritanism, changing kinship patterns, and the redefinition of caste hierarchies. {F}or {D}alit women, these transformations have given rise to new forms of debt, sexuality, and sexual-economic exchanges. {A}lthough such exchanges can be compatible with sexual desire and pleasure, {D}alit women are nonetheless trapped in new forms of unpayable debt. {T}heir debts, though quantifiable and financial, retain a strong moral component associated with new norms of chastity and monogamy. {F}ar from being mere passive objects of exchange, {D}alit women challenge their unpayable debt and struggle to exist both as creditworthy financial subjects and as subjects of desire. {I}n contesting the norms of forced sexuality, these women challenge researchers to rethink the concepts of debt and unpayable debt through the lens of gender and sexuality.},
  keywords = {debt ; unpayable debt ; exchange ; obligations ; sexuality ; gender ; feminist ; anthropology ; financialization ; {I}ndia ; {INDE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{A}merican {E}thnologist},
  volume = {47},
  numero = {3},
  pages = {219--233},
  ISSN = {0094-0496},
  year = {2020},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010080393},
}