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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Smitha RadhakrishnanPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.386kg ISBN: 9781478014874ISBN 10: 1478014873 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 28 January 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAbbreviations and Acronyms ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. The Invisible State of Gender and Credit 25 2. Men and Women of the MFI 47 3. Making Women Creditworthy 70 4. Social Work 100 5. Empowerment, Declined 124 6. Distortions of Distance 148 7. Impact Revisited 177 Conclusion 197 Methodological Appendix 211 Notes 219 Bibliography 233 Index 245ReviewsSmitha Radhakrishnan's compelling and important study of women in the world of microfinance is one of the best books I've read in several years. No other book on the market features this kind of data, access, or methods of triangulation. With its clear writing, rich stories and nuance, Making Women Pay will challenge readers to think more critically about how microfinance is deeply gendered. Engaging, moving, and powerful. -- Kimberly Kay Hoang, author of * Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work * While the scholarship on microfinance has become increasingly nuanced over the past three decades, we still lack critical information about the very people who put microfinance into practice-namely the loan officers, educators, and field workers who directly interface with clients and act as brokers between clients and administration, as well as upper-level administrators. Smitha Radhakrishnan fills this critical gap, offering readers a new analysis of microfinance that takes microfinance workers at all levels seriously as social agents. Reading this book is a breath of fresh air and a true delight. -- Erin Beck, author of * How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs * Smitha Radhakrishnan's compelling and important study of women in the world of microfinance is one of the best books I've read in several years. No other book on the market features this kind of data, access, or methods of triangulation. With its clear writing, rich stories and nuance, Making Women Pay will challenge readers to think more critically about how microfinance is deeply gendered. Engaging, moving, and powerful. -- Kimberly Kay Hoang, author of * Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work * While the scholarship on microfinance has become increasingly nuanced over the past three decades, we still lack critical information about the very people who put microfinance into practice-namely the loan officers, educators, and field-workers who directly interface with clients and act as brokers between clients and administration, as well as upper-level administrators. Smitha Radhakrishnan fills this critical gap, offering readers a new analysis of microfinance that takes microfinance workers at all levels seriously as social agents. Reading this book is a breath of fresh air and a true delight. -- Erin Beck, author of * How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs * Author InformationSmitha Radhakrishnan is Professor of Sociology and Luella LaMer Slaner Professor of Women's Studies at Wellesley College and author of Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class, also published by Duke University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |