The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism

by Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar, G. Venkatasubramanian

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503636313
• ISBN13: 9781503636316
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"