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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818324403321

Autore

Karim Lamia

Titolo

Microfinance and its discontents : women in debt in Bangladesh / / Lamia Karim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4529-4666-3

0-8166-7673-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Disciplina

332

Soggetti

Microfinance - Bangladesh

Women - Bangladesh - Economic conditions

Non-governmental organizations - Bangladesh

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Neoliberalism, microfinance, and women's empowerment -- The structural transformation of the NGO sphere -- The research terrain -- The everyday mediations of microfinance -- The social life of debt -- NGOs, clergy, and contested "democracy" -- Power/knowledge in microfinance -- From disciplined subjects to political agents?

Sommario/riassunto

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