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Microfinance and its discontents : women in debt in Bangladesh / Lamia Karim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karim, Lamia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Microfinance--Bangladesh.
- Microfinance.
- Women--Bangladesh--Economic conditions.
- Women.
- Non-governmental organizations--Bangladesh.
- Non-governmental organizations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (291 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The first feminist critique of the much-lauded microcredit process in Bangladesh.
- Contents:
- 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?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4666-3
- 0-8166-7673-9
- OCLC:
- 733040286
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