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Mortgaging Women's Lives: Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment
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Sparr, Pamela, ed. 1994. Mortgaging Women's Lives: Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment. London: Zed Books
Author: Pamela Sparr
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Summary:
This book explores the impact on Third World women of the stringent economic prescriptions of the World Bank and IMF. Introductory chapters explain in non-jargonistic terms exactly what structural adjustment is. These are followed by feminist critiques of its implications, and then a series of carefully chosen case studies examining the specific dimensions of structural adjustment in countries as diverse as Jamaica, Ghana, Nigeria, Egypt, Turkey, Sri Lanka and the Philippines (Summary from WorldCat).
Table of Contents:
1. What is structural adjustment?
Pamela Sparr
2. Feminist critiques of structural adjustment
Pamela Sparr
3. Privatization and the demise of state feminism in Egypt
Mervat F. Hatem
4. Ghana: women in the public and informal sectors under the economic recovery programme
Takyiwaa Manuh
5. What has export-oriented manufacturing meant for Turkish women?
Nilüfer Çagatay, Günseli Berik
6. Structural adjustment policies, industrial development and women in Sri Lanka
Swarna Jayaweera
7. The dynamics of economic change and gender roles: export cropping in the Philippines
Maria Sagrario Floro
8. Nigeria: agricultural exports and compensatory schemes -- rural women's production resources and quality of life
Patience Elabor-Idemudia
9. Hitting where it hurts most: Jamaican women's livelihoods in crisis
Joan French
10. Banking on women: where do we go from here?
Pamela Sparr
Topics: Agriculture, Development, Globalization, Privatization Regions: Africa, MENA, West Africa, Americas, Caribbean countries, Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia Countries: Egypt, Jamaica, Nigeria, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Turkey
Year: 1994
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