Women Microfinance and the State in Neo liberal India

Women  Microfinance and the State in Neo liberal India
Author: K. Kalpana
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2016-07-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781134860043

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This book discusses women-oriented microfinance initiatives in India and their articulation vis-à-vis state developmentalism and contemporary neo-liberal capitalism. It examines how these initiatives encourage economically disadvantaged rural women to make claims upon state-provided microcredit and connect with multiple state institutions and agencies, thereby reshaping their gendered identities. The author shows how Self-Help Group (SHG)-based microfinance institutions mobilise agency and create channels of empowerment for women as well as make them responsible for alleviating poverty for themselves and their families. The book also brings out the importance of factoring in women’s dissenting voices when they negotiate developmental projects at the grassroots level. Rich in empirical data, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of development studies, gender studies, economics, especially microeconomics, politics, public policy and governance.

Neoliberalism and Women in India

Neoliberalism and Women in India
Author: U. Kalpagam
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2019-07-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781498592253

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This study examines neoliberal strategies of governmentality in India. The author analyzes the effects of globalization and how women's subjectivities are shaped in a variety of sociopolitical contexts.

Gender Development and the State in India

Gender  Development  and the State in India
Author: Carole Spary
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2019-02-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780429663444

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This book explores the relationship between the state, development policy, and gender (in)equality in India. It discusses the formation of state policy on gender and development in India in the post-1990 period through three key organising concepts of institutions, discourse, and agency. The book pays particular attention to whether the international policy language of gender mainstreaming has been adopted by the Indian state, and if so, to what extent and with what results. The author examines how these issues play out at multiple levels of governance – at both the national and the subnational (state) level in federal India. This comparative aspect is particularly important in the context of increasing autonomy in development policymaking in India in the 1990s, divergent development policy approaches and outcomes among states, and the emerging importance of subnational state development policies and programmes for women in this period. The author argues that the state is not a monolith but a heterogeneous, internally differentiated collection of institutions, which offers complex and varying opportunities and consequences for feminists engaging the state. Demonstrating that the Indian empirical case is illuminating for studies of the gendered politics of development, and international debates on gender mainstreaming, the book highlights the politics of negotiating gender equality strategies in the contemporary context of neo-liberal development and brings together complex issues of modernity, postcolonialism, identity politics, federalism, and equality within the broader context of the world’s largest democracy. This book will be of interest to scholars interested in the politics of gender equality, state feminism, and gender mainstreaming; federalism and multi-level governance; and development studies and gender in South Asia.

Women and Microfinance in the Global South

Women and Microfinance in the Global South
Author: Lynn Horton
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781108418720

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Women and Microfinance in the Global South is a grounded exploration of the intersections of neoliberal ideology and feminism.

Re Presenting Feminist Methodologies

Re Presenting Feminist Methodologies
Author: Kalpana Kannabiran,Padmini Swaminathan
Publsiher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781351800372

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This book tracks the trajectory of gender in the social sciences and humanities through an exploration of the challenges and contradictions that confront contemporary feminist analysis as well as future directions. Drawing on research in India, the essays in the volume engage with the subject in imaginative ways, each one going beyond documenting the persistence of gender inequality, instead raising new questions and dilemmas while unravelling the complexities of the terrain. They also interrogate extant knowledge that has ‘constructed’ women as ‘agentless’ over the years, incapable of contesting or transforming social orders – by taking a close look at gendered decision-making processes and outcomes, sex for pleasure, health care practices, content and context of formal schooling or the developmental state that ‘mainstreams’ gender. Do existing feminist methodologies enable the understanding of emerging themes as online sexual politics, transnational surrogacy or masculinist ‘anti-feminist’ sensibilities? The feminist methodologies delineated here will provide readers with a toolkit to assess the criticality of gender as well as its nuances. The work foregrounds the importance of intersectionality and builds a case for context-specific articulations of gender and societies that destabilize binary universals. This volume will be useful to scholars and researchers across the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities, especially gender studies, women’s studies, feminism, research methodology, education, sociology, political science and public policy.

Handbook of Microfinance Financial Inclusion and Development

Handbook of Microfinance  Financial Inclusion and Development
Author: Valentina Hartarska,Robert J. Cull
Publsiher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2023-02-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781789903874

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This timely Handbook collates a range of evidence from top scholars in the field to help readers understand who microfinance reaches, how it helps, and why clients come back. It offers updated views on important concepts that enable a broader framework for understanding poverty and the corresponding financial needs of poor households.

Escalation Management in International Crises

Escalation Management in International Crises
Author: Jonathan Wilkenfeld,Egle E. Murauskaite
Publsiher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2023-02-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781800887329

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Based on cutting-edge research by an interdisciplinary team of academics and policy analysts, this insightful and timely book considers the role of great power competition in what has come to be known as gray zone conflict. Taking the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine as a backdrop for some of its critical evaluation, it also examines US and NATO approaches to the management of escalation in asymmetric conflicts, and proposes innovative tools for managing crises in the future.

The Indebted Woman

The Indebted Woman
Author: Isabelle Guérin,Santosh Kumar,G. Venkatasubramanian
Publsiher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2023-09-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781503636910

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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 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.