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The indebted woman : kinship, sexuality, and capitalism / Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar, G. Venkatasubramanian

Guérin, Isabelle, 1973- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Santosh, Kumar [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Venkatasubramanian, G. [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2023

xvi, 229 Seiten : Diagramme

Englisch

Intimacies and measurement -- Kinship debt -- The sexual division of debt -- Debt work -- Bodily collateral -- Debt and love -- Human debts -- What does the future hold?

Includes bibliographical references and index

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet (Rechtsgrundlage FID). Univ. Heidelberg, CATS, Südasi

Erscheint auch als: Guérin, Isabelle : Indebted woman. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2023 (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-5036-3631-6 (cloth); 978-1-5036-3690-3 (paperback)

978-1-5036-3691-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2023017517

OCoLC: 1391215903     

HQ1744.T3

305.48/442095482     Ähnliche Literatur

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-SUEDASIEN-DE-16

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LOC-SH: Poor women -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- Social conditions ; Debt -- India -- Tamil Nadu ; Sex role -- Economic aspects -- India -- Tamil Nadu ; Capitalism -- Social aspects -- India -- Tamil Nadu

"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"--