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researching the past, refiguring the future
xii, 330 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Comprises 19 papers which provide examples of credit agencies and initiatives in both developed and developing countries and make suugestions for reconfiguring the relationship between women and credit.
1. Introduction. Women, Credit and the Creation of Opportunity: A Historical Overview / Beverly Lemire -- 2. Women's Economic Spheres and Credit in Pre-industrial Europe / Laurence Fontaine -- 3. Petty Debts and Family Networks: The Credit Markets of Widows and Wives in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam / Anne E. C. McCants -- 4. Lending Women, Borrowing Women: Middle-Class Women, Investments and Credit in Northern France in the Nineteenth Century / Beatrice Craig -- 5. Women and Micro-credit in History: Gender in the Irish Loan Funds / Aidan Hollis -- 6. Stokvels and Economic Empowerment: The Case of African Women in South Africa, c. 1930-1998 / Grietjie Verhoef -- 7. Women, Institutional Roles and Economic Opportunity / Mary Houghton -- 8. A Personal Perspective on the Evolution of Micro-credit in the Late Twentieth Century / Mary Coyle -- 9. Banking with Poor Self-employed Women / Jayshree Vyas -- 10. Micro-credit as a Path from Welfare to Work: The Experience of the Full Circle Project, U.K. / Ruth Pearson -- 11. Credit Options, Human Resource Development and the Sustainability of Women's Projects: Case Study of the 'Association of Creative Teaching -- Women in Development Projects' in the South-West Province, Cameroon / Joyce Bayande Endeley -- 12. Negotiating Financial Autonomy: Women, Income and Credit in Urban Java / Hotze Lont -- 13. Poor Female Youth and Human Capital Development in Bangladesh: What Role for Micro-Credit Programmes? / Najma R. Sharif
14. Women's Empowerment Versus Sustainability? Towards a New Paradigm in Micro-finance Programmes / Linda Mayoux -- 15. Linking Formal and Informal Financial Intermediaries in Ghana: A Way To Increase Women's Access to Financial Services? / J. Howard M. Jones and Owuraku Sakyi-Dawson -- 16. Financial Arrangements Across Borders: Women's Predominant Participation in Popular Finance, from Thilogne and Dakar to Paris. A Senegalese Case Study / Abdoulaye Kane -- Continuity and Change: Towards a Conclusion / Ruth Pearson.
edited by Beverly Lemire, Ruth Pearson and Gail Campbell.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte