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The Indebted Woman

The Indebted Woman

Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism

by Isabelle GuérinSantosh Kumar and G. Venkatasubramanian
Hardback
Publication Date: 19/09/2023

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Poor women have become essential cogs in the wheel of financialized capitalism. Globally, it is most often women who manage household debt to make ends meet, 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.

ISBN:
9781503636316
9781503636316
Category:
Political economy
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
19-09-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x17mm
Weight:
0.44kg

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