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Mortgaging Women's Lives

Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment

Mortgaging Women's Lives( )
Author: Sparr, Pamela
ISBN:978-1-85649-101-3
Publication Date:Jan 1994
Publisher:Zed Books, Limited
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $73.95
Book 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.

Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Business & Economics / Structural Adjustment
Social Science / Women's Studies
Business & Economics / Women In Business
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):14.021 x 22.047 x 2.337 cm
Book Weight:0.282 Kilograms



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