Mortgaging Women&39s Lives Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment [Paperback]

Introduction

1. What is Structural Adjustment? – Pamela Sparr
The political-economic context
The variety of policy-based loans
The goals of structural adjustment
Loan procedures and strategies

2. Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment – Pamela Sparr
Theoretical underpinnings of structural adjustment
The gender bias in neoclassical theory
The issue of causality
Empirical evidence of the impact of SAPs on women
Is it all bad?
Appendix

3. Privatization and the Demise of State Feminism in Egypt – Mervat F. Hatem
Institutionalized feminism in the 1950s and 1960s
How structural adjustment changed women’s status
Conclusions

4. Ghana: Women in the Public and Informal Sectors under the Economic Recovery Programme – Takyiwaa Manuh
Social and economic context
Economic conditions which led to the ERP/SAP
The SAP and women’s employment
The SAP and women’s employment in the public sector
The SAP and women’s employment in the informal sector
The SAP and rural women’s employment
Conclusions

5. What Has Export-oriented Manufacturing Meant for Turkish Women? – Nilüfer Çagatau amd Günseli Berik
From import-substituting industrialization to export-led industrialization
Changing the economic course
Employment implications of structural adjustment for women workers
Policy conclusions

6. Structural Adjustment Policies, Industrial Development and Women in Sri Lanka – Swarna Jayaweera
The prelude
Structural adjustment policies
Women’s changing industrial employment opportunities
Women in small-scale and cottage industries
Women in export-oriented industries
Women entrepreneurs
Consequences and implications

7. The Dynamicsl³+