Mortgaging Women's Lives: Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment

Author/Contributor(s):	Sparr, Pamela
Publisher:	Zed Books
Date:	04/01/1993
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.