Women and Credit

Researching the Past, Refiguring the Future
Herausgeber: Campbell, Gail; Pearson, Ruth; Lemire, Beverly

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Produktbeschreibung

Credit can be instrumental in equalizing opportunity and alleviating poverty, yet historically men and women have not had the same access. Partly because of this, women have been excluded from many previous economic histories. This book fills a significant gap in exploring the vexed relationship between the women and credit across time and space.Providing examples of credit agencies and initiatives in both the developing and developed world, Women and Credit raises important policy issues and makes valuable suggestions for reconfiguring the relationship between women and credit. It also answers questions previously ignored by scholars, yet of vital significance to women's studies and economic history. What contribution did women make to the development of industrial capitalism? How does women's access to credit vary across time and cultures? How has the development of mico-credit initiatives affected women's economic position and what role will such initiatives play in the future?This book is an invaluable resource for anyone in the fields of Women's studies, economic history, anthropology or development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781859734841
• ISBN-10: 1859734847
• Artikelnr.: 25437606

Autorenporträt

Beverly Lemire Professor of History and University Research Professor,University of New Brunswick, Canada Ruth Pearson Professor of Development Studies, University of Leeds Gail Campbell Professor of History, University of New Brunswick

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Exploring the Western History of Women and Credit 1 Introduction.
Women, Credit and the Creation of Opportunity: A Historical Overview 2
Women's Economic Spheres and Credit in Pre-industrial Europe 3 Petty Debts
and Family Networks: The Credit Markets of Widows and Wives in
Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam 4 Lending Women, Borrowing Women: Middle-Class
Women, Investments and Credit in Northern France in the Nineteenth Century
Part II Bridging Past and Present 5 Women and Micro-credit in History:
Gender in the Irish Loan Funds 6 Stokvels and Economic Empowerment: The
Case of African Women in South Africa, c .1930-1998 Part III Pioneering
Projects 7 Women, Institutional Roles and Economic Opportunity 8 A Personal
Perspective on the Evolution of Micro-credit in the Late Twentieth Century
9 Banking with Poor Self-employed Women 10 Micro-credit as a Path from
Welfare to Work: The Experience of the Full Circle Project, UK Part IV
Impacts and Issues 11 Credit Options, Human Resource Development and the
Sustainability of Women's Projects: Case Study of the 'Association of
Creative Teaching - Women in Development Projects' in the South-West
Province, Cameroon 12 Negotiating Financial Autonomy: Women, Income and
Credit in Urban Java 13 Poor Female Youth and Human Capital Development in
Bangladesh: What Role for Micro-Credit Programmes? Part V Policy
Perspectives 14 Women's Empowerment Versus Sustainability? Towards a New
Paradigm in Micro-finance Programmes 15 Linking Formal and Informal
Financial Intermediaries in Ghana: A Way To Increase Women's Access to
Financial Services? 16 Financial Arrangements Across Borders: Women's
Predominant Participation in Popular Finance, from Thilogne and Dakar to
Paris. A Senegalese Case Study, Continuity and Change: Towards a Conclusion