Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789211040506
Sharmila Parmanand
The Philippines is a global leader in deploying microcredit to address poverty. These programmes are usually directed at women. Research on these programmes focuses on traditional economic indicators such as loan repayment rates but neglects impacts on women’s agency and well-being, or their position in the household and relationships with their partners and children. It is taken for granted that access to microcredit leads to enhanced gender freedoms. In line with the growing body of work in feminist scholarship that critiques the instrumentalist logic of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in relation to women, this research foregrounds stories from interviews with female borrowers in Zamboanga City in Southern Philippines to provide grounded illustrations of how microcredit is reshaping relationships between women and their families, women and poverty and women and the state. Borrowers used loans to meet their family’s needs even at the cost of harassment from creditors, indebtedness, increased workloads and conflict with partners. These narratives challenge the dominant neoliberal discourse of female empowerment through access to credit by exposing how microcredit is part of a complex set of regulations around ‘good motherhood’ and consumption, where women’s moral worth is based on their willingness and ability to lift their families out of poverty.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789211031439
Jacqueline Potvin
In The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development, Kathryn Moeller presents a nuanced analysis of the co-constituting relationship between the emergence of adolescent girls as a unique demographic category in global development discourse, and the increased, highly visible participation of corporations in the project of development. Drawing on discursive analysis and ethnographic research, Moeller is particularly interested in why private foundations and corporations have increasingly chosen the empowerment of adolescent girls as the site through which to ‘do good’, and how their deployment of the ‘Girl Effect’ discourse depoliticises calls for global gender equality while upholding capitalist logic and exploitative corporate practices.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789211040456
Xin Liu
How to foster feminist coalitions across various borders, without flattening out crucial differences that matter? The problem of difference has exercised much critical attention in the field of transnational feminist studies. On the one hand, transnational feminism foregrounds differences and multiplicities, and challenges the exclusion and marginalisation of the other. On the other hand, the investments in certain difference sometimes run the risk of fixing its location and meaning, and producing a seeming impasse for transnational feminist collaboration. As M.J. Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2010, p. 27) ask, ‘can transnational feminist lenses push us to ask questions that are location specific but not necessarily location bound?’.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789211029245
K. Mackereth
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789211032878
Yula Burin, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789211041600
Radha Sarkar
Does religiosity help or hinder the exercise of agency? This article brings new evidence to bear on this long-standing debate, examining the life and work of the indigenous activist and follower of liberation theology, Rigoberta Menchú, in Guatemala, and the experiences of a millenarian community in Brazil, particularly one of its leaders, Dona Dodô. The two cases elucidate the dynamics of agency and piety, challenging the idea that pious individuals lack agency. In particular, the article interrogates the construction of pious women as doubly oppressed by the forces of religion and patriarchy, and argues that, on the contrary, it was in the course of religious observance that Menchú and members of the millenarian community mounted challenges to ecclesiastical as well as political orders. Thus, the article underscores the possibilities for resistance and contention through piety rather than at odds with it. In studying these historical figures, the article looks beyond the Global North, which has inspired much of the theorising on religion and agency, to women and men marginalised by their ethnicity, poverty and rurality. In doing so, it demonstrates how religion can enable action among those far from traditional centres of power.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789211041677
Azille Coetzee
There is a growing body of feminist scholarship and literature exploring the ways in which Western patriarchal technologies of gender differentiation and sexual violence structure the racial categorisation and dehumanisation that define South Africa’s history of slavery, colonialism and apartheid. In this article, I consider the gendered history of white Afrikaner nationalism in the context of these insights. Using the decolonial feminist lens of María Lugones, I interpret the historical and contemporary patriarchal subjugation of the white Afrikaner woman as a site of the production and maintenance of colonial racial categories and hierarchies. Gaining a better understanding of how gender operated as a colonial mode of organisation in the process of forging the ethno-racialised white identity of the Afrikaner in the early nineteenth century in opposition to the black indigenous majority population helps to explain how the continued patriarchal subjugation of white Afrikaner women by Afrikaner men in postcolonial/postapartheid South Africa works to reassert and maintain colonial racial categories and inequalities that continue to plague the country.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789211037031
Shama Khanna, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
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