Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India

In Making Women Pay, Smitha Radhakrishnan explores India's microfinance industry, which in the past two decades has...
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Author: Smitha Radhakrishnan
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Language: English
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Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India by Radhakrishnan, Smitha

Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India

Dhs. 243.99

Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India

Dhs. 243.99
Author: Smitha Radhakrishnan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In Making Women Pay, Smitha Radhakrishnan explores India's microfinance industry, which in the past two decades has come to saturate the everyday lives of women in the name of state-led efforts to promote financial inclusion and women's empowerment. Despite this favorable language, Radhakrishnan argues, microfinance in India does not provide a market-oriented development intervention, even though it may appear to help women borrowers. Rather, this commercial industry seeks to extract the maximum value from its customers through exploitative relationships that benefit especially class-privileged men. Through ethnography, interviews, and historical analysis, Radhakrishnan demonstrates how the unpaid and underpaid labor of marginalized women borrowers ensures both profitability and symbolic legitimacy for microfinance institutions, their employees, and their leaders. In doing so, she centralizes gender in the study of microfinance, reveals why most microfinance programs target women, and explores the exploitative implications of this targeting.

Author: Smitha Radhakrishnan
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 01/28/2022
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9781478014874


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2022

About the Author
Smitha Radhakrishnan is Professor of Sociology and Luella LaMer Slaner Professor of Women's Studies at Wellesley College and author of Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class, also published by Duke University Press.

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