Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India

Author:   Smitha Radhakrishnan
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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Pages:   272
Publication Date:   28 January 2022
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Author:   Smitha Radhakrishnan
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9781478014874


ISBN 10:   1478014873
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   28 January 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations 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  245

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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 *


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 Information

Smitha 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.

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