Mortgaging Women's Lives: Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment

By Pamela Sparr

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856491021
• ISBN13: 9781856491020
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"