Guérin Isabelle, Kumar S., Venkatasubramanian G. (2023). The indebted woman : kinship, sexuality, and capitalism.
Stanford : Stanford University Press, 229 p. (Culture and Economic Life). ISBN 978-1-5036-3631-6.
Titre du document
The indebted woman : kinship, sexuality, and capitalism
Année de publication
2023
Type de document
Ouvrage
Auteurs
Guérin Isabelle, Kumar S., Venkatasubramanian G.
Source
Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2023,
229 p. (Culture and Economic Life). ISBN 978-1-5036-3631-6
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.
Plan de classement
Sciences économiques [094SCECO]
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Anthropologie [106ANTHRO1]
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Comportements et pratiques sociales [106GESOC2]
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Politique sociale, problèmes sociaux [106PROSO]
