Mortgaging women's lives
Subtitle: feminist critiques of structural adjustment
By: edited by Pamela Sparr.
Contributors: Sparr, Pamela, 1956-
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Women -- Employment -- Developing countries -- Case studies.; Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Developing countries -- Case studies.
Description: This book explores the impact on Third World women of the stringent economic prescriptions of the World Bank and IMF. Introductory chapters explain in non-jargonistic terms exactly what structural adjustment is. These are followed by feminist critiques of its implications, and then a series of carefully chosen case studies examining the specific dimensions of structural adjustment in countries as diverse as Jamaica, Ghana, Nigeria, Egypt, Turkey, Sri Lanka and the Philippines.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.