Regulating Motherhood Through Markets
Filipino women's engagement with microcredit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3946111 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sharmila Parmanand (0000-0003-2461-7470, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 129 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 32-47 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01417789211040506 |
| OpenAlex | W3214226145 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 25 |
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
Agency (philosophy) · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Microfinance · Poverty · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Women's empowerment · Gender Studies · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |