Mortgaging Women's Lives: Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment
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.
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Mortgaging Women's Lives: Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment
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.
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ISBN-13: | 9781856491020 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publication date: | 04/01/1993 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 224 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.52(d) |
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