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100			_aGuérin, Isabelle _9725536
245		0	_aIndebted woman : _bKinship, sexuality, and capitalism
260			_aStanford : _bStanford University Press, _c2023.
300			_axvi, 229p.
365			_aUSD _b25
490			_aCulture and economic life
520			_aWomen, 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 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.
650			_aGender- Poor women- Tamil Nadu _9811952
650			_aSocial conditions- debt- India- Tamil Nadu _9811953
650			_aSex role- Economic aspects- India- Tamil Nadu _9811954
700			_aSantosh Kumar _9810231
700			_aVenkatasubramanian G. _9811955
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