Overview

***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** In this sharp intervention, authors Lucí Cavallero and Verónica Gago defiantly develop a feminist understanding of debt, showing its impact on women and members of the LGBTQ+ community and examining the relationship between debt and social reproduction. Exploring the link between financial activity and the rise of conservative forces in Latin America, the book demonstrates that debt is intimately linked to gendered violence and patriarchal notions of the family. Yet, rather than seeing these forces as insurmountable, the authors also show ways in which debt can be resisted, drawing on concrete experiences and practices from Latin America and around the world. Featuring interviews with women in Argentina and Brazil, the book reveals the real-life impact of debt and how it falls mainly on the shoulders of women, from the household to the wider effects of national debt and austerity. However, through discussions around experiences of work, prisons, domestic labour, agriculture, family, abortion and housing, a narrative of resistance emerges. Translated by Liz Mason-Deese.

Full Product Details

Author:   Lucí Cavallero ,  Verónica Gago ,  Liz Mason-Deese
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Weight:   0.132kg
ISBN:  

9780745341729

ISBN 10:   0745341721
Pages:   112
Publication Date:   20 April 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   Spanish

Table of Contents

Foreword by Tithi Bhattacharya Translator’s Note Preface Introduction: Taking Debt Out of the Closet 1. Diagnosing Forms of Violence 2. Exploitation and Difference 3. A Feminist Reading of Debt 4. Debt and Social Reproduction 5. Financial Extractivism and Dispossession 6. What is Debt? 7. New Era: Financial Terror 8. Debt as a “Counter-revolution” of Everyday Life 9. The Writing on the Body of Women 10. Neither Victims nor Entrepreneurs 11. Feminist Insubordination and Fascist Neoliberalism 12. Counter-offensive 13. Gentlemen’s Agreement 14. The Patriarchy Has My Missing Contributions 15. Debt and Urban Development in the City of Buenos Aires 16. From Finance to Bodies 17. Voluntary Termination of Debt 18. Hunger and Gender Mandates 19. The Debt of Care 20. A Feminist Analysis of Inflation 21. How to Disobey Finance? 22. We Want Ourselves Alive and Debt Free! 23. Us Against Debt 24. “They Owe Us a Life” 25. A Feminist Strike Against Debt: 2020 26. Excursus. Rosa Luxemburg: In the Lands of Debt and 27. Consumption 28. Some Milestones of a Brief Chronology 29. Interviews 30. Manifestos Bibliography Index

Reviews

'An exciting, novel feminist book on the financialisation of life. It rescues debates on debt from abstraction and provides a key cartography of oppression. A great read, opening new avenues for social reproduction analyses and feminist struggles' -- Alessandra Mezzadri, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS, and author of 'The Sweatshop Regime' (CUP, 2017) and editor of 'Marx in the Field' (Anthem, 2021)

Author Information

Lucí Cavallero is a researcher at the University of Buenos Aires. Her work focuses on the link between debt, illegal capital, and different forms of violence. She is a feminist activist and member of the Ni Una Menos Collective. Verónica Gago teaches Political Science at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and is a Professor of Sociology at the Instituto de Altos Estudios, Universidad Nacional de San Martin. She is the author of Feminist International and Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies. She is a feminist activist and member of the Ni Una Menos Collective. She lives in Buenos Aires.

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