@book{fdi:010088999,
  title = {{T}he indebted woman : kinship, sexuality, and capitalism},
  author = {{G}u{\'e}rin, {I}sabelle and {K}umar, {S}. and {V}enkatasubramanian, {G}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{W}omen, and particularly poor women, have become essential cogs in the wheel of financialized capitalism. {G}lobally, 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. {A}cross 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. {T}he {I}ndebted {W}oman discusses the crucial yet invisible roles poor women play in making and consolidating debt and credit markets. {I}sabelle {G}u{\'e}rin, {S}antosh {K}umar, and {G}. {V}enkatasubramanian spent over two decades observing a credit market that specifically targets women in the {I}ndian countryside of east-central {T}amil {N}adu. {T}hey found that paying off debts required labor, frequently involved sexual transactions, and shaped women's bodies and subjectivities. {B}ringing 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 {I}ndian case, exposing the ways capitalism transforms womanhood and how this transformation in turn fuels capitalism.},
  keywords = {{INDE} ; {TAMIL} {NADU}},
  address = {{S}tanford},
  publisher = {{S}tanford {U}niversity {P}ress},
  series = {{C}ulture and {E}conomic {L}ife},
  pages = {229},
  year = {2023},
  ISBN = {978-1-5036-3631-6},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010088999},
}