Credit to capabilities : a sociological study of microcredit groups in India /

This book focuses on how group-based microcredit programs in India facilitate women's empowerment through the mechanism of group participation and networking.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sanyal, Paromita (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Microfinance > Social aspects > India.
Entrepreneurship > India.
Poor women > Employment > India.
Self-employed women > India.
Businesswomen > India.
Women > India > Economic conditions.
Women > India > Social conditions.
Entrepreneuriat > Inde.
Femmes pauvres > Travail > Inde.
Travailleuses indépendantes > Inde.
Femmes > Inde > Conditions économiques.
Femmes > Inde > Conditions sociales.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
Businesswomen
Entrepreneurship
Poor women > Employment
Self-employed women
Women > Economic conditions
Women > Social conditions
India
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The global trajectory of microcredit ; The savior-slayer dichotomy; Deploying social relationships for financial ends; Contradictions and controversies; Extrapolating from the evidence from West Bengal; 2 Agency ; Existing approaches; Social deprivation in a context of patriarchy and control; An appositional approach; Gender "habitus"; Strategies of observing agency; Pathways to agency; 3 Converting loans into leverage ; Wives who turned worthy; Brides who bargained; Mired mutinies; Conclusions.
  • 4 The power of participation Self-conscious social awareness; Social interaction; Physical mobility; Domestic power; Civic participation; Conclusions; 5 Microcredit and collective action ; Collective action and sanctioning; Explaining the capacity for collective action; 6 Culture and microcredit: why socio-religious dimensions matter ; "Group styles" in microcredit; In search of explanations; Conclusions; 7 Loans and well-being ; Egalitarian Muslim households; De facto female-headed Muslim households; True female-headed Muslim households; Egalitarian Hindu households.
  • De facto female-headed Hindu householdsTrue female-headed Hindu households; Conclusions; 8 Interpreting microcredit ; Looking beyond the salvation-exploitation dichotomy; 9 Epilogue: the future of microcredit ; Methodological debates and directions; Microcredit's place in policy; Philanthropy, free market, and choices facing microcredit; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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