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Microfinance and Its Discontents : Women in Debt in Bangladesh.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (291 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780816676736
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 332
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Contents:
COVER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: Neoliberalism, Microfinance, and Women's Empowerment -- 1. The Structural Transformation of the NGO Sphere -- 2. The Research Terrain -- 3. The Everyday Mediations of Microfinance -- 4. The Social Life of Debt -- 5. NGOs, Clergy, and Contested "Democracy" -- 6. Power/Knowledge in Microfinance -- CONCLUSION: From Disciplined Subjects to Political Agents? -- GLOSSARY OF BENGALI WORDS -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- Z -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: The first feminist critique of the much-lauded microcredit process in Bangladesh.
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COVER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: Neoliberalism, Microfinance, and Women's Empowerment -- 1. The Structural Transformation of the NGO Sphere -- 2. The Research Terrain -- 3. The Everyday Mediations of Microfinance -- 4. The Social Life of Debt -- 5. NGOs, Clergy, and Contested "Democracy" -- 6. Power/Knowledge in Microfinance -- CONCLUSION: From Disciplined Subjects to Political Agents? -- GLOSSARY OF BENGALI WORDS -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- Z -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The first feminist critique of the much-lauded microcredit process in Bangladesh.

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