Mortgaging Women's Lives Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment |
|
| Author:
| Sparr, Pamela |
| ISBN: | 978-1-85649-101-3 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1993 |
| Publisher: | Zed Books, Limited
|
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $95.00 |
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.
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.