Microcredit programs as transnational regimes of neo-liberal governance.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9780494162224
Subjects: Microfinance -- Developing countries.; Feminism.; Women's rights -- Developing countries.; Neoliberalism.
Description: This thesis examines feminist discursive entanglement within microcredit programs that enables the expansion of neo-liberal governance expressed through consumer citizenship, competition, state de-regulation, privatization and financialization of social relations throughout developing countries. This work examines the complex and multifaceted power relations through which Third World women's 'old' and 'new' subject positions are (re)produced and argues that previous colonial discourses of cultural, racial and sexual inferiority have not been replaced but are merely camouflaged by practices of women's inclusion in development discourses and practices.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-06, page: 2659.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-133)

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