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Book SynopsisWomen's lives are burdened by the weight of debt. But collectively, it can be resisted
Trade Review'An exciting, novel feminist book on the financialisation of life. It rescues debates on debt from abstraction and provides a key cartography of oppression. A great read, opening new avenues for social reproduction analyses and feminist struggles'
-- Alessandra Mezzadri, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS, and author of 'The Sweatshop Regime' (CUP, 2017) and editor of 'Marx in the Field' (Anthem, 2021)
'This book is of great value to those interested in the financialisation of everyday life and social reproduction - essential reading for those studying and involved in building feminist movements in Latin America and beyond'
-- ‘LSE Review of Books’
Table of ContentsForeword by Tithi Bhattacharya
Translator’s Note
Preface
Introduction: Taking Debt Out of the Closet
1. Diagnosing Forms of Violence
2. Exploitation and Difference
3. A Feminist Reading of Debt
4. Debt and Social Reproduction
5. Financial Extractivism and Dispossession
6. What is Debt?
7. New Era: Financial Terror
8. Debt as a “Counter-revolution” of Everyday Life
9. The Writing on the Body of Women
10. Neither Victims nor Entrepreneurs
11. Feminist Insubordination and Fascist Neoliberalism
12. Counter-offensive
13. Gentlemen’s Agreement
14. The Patriarchy Has My Missing Contributions
15. Debt and Urban Development in the City of Buenos Aires
16. From Finance to Bodies
17. Voluntary Termination of Debt
18. Hunger and Gender Mandates
19. The Debt of Care
20. A Feminist Analysis of Inflation
21. How to Disobey Finance?
22. We Want Ourselves Alive and Debt Free!
23. Us Against Debt
24. “They Owe Us a Life”
25. A Feminist Strike Against Debt: 2020
26. Excursus. Rosa Luxemburg: In the Lands of Debt and
27. Consumption
28. Some Milestones of a Brief Chronology
29. Interviews
30. Manifestos
Bibliography
Index
