Guérin Isabelle auteur aut IRD Kumar S. auteur aut IRD Venkatasubramanian G. auteur aut IRD text book eng text/pdf born digital access 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. specialized INDE TAMIL NADU 094SCECO 106GESOC2 106PROSO 106ANTHRO1 Stanford Stanford University Press 2023 229 229 229 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010088999 978-1-5036-3631-6 [F A010088999] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010088999 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2023-11/010088999.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2023-11-16 2023-11-17 fdi:010088999 fre