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Capitalizing on Women’s Social Capital?: Women-Targeted Microfinance in Bolivia

2021-present, Case Study, Countries and Regions, Cultural Development, Economic Development, Newspaper Article/Feature, Political Development, Social Development / By

This article examines the construction of social capital and its relationship to income generation, based on a long-term ethnographic study of village life in rural Bolivia and the microfinance institution operating there. The author examines the complexity and gendered contradictions implied in the way that social capital is generally viewed to support economic development. Asset …

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Capitalism and the production of uneven bodies: women, motherhood and food distribution in Britain c.1850–1914

2021-present, Case Study, Cultural Development, Economic Development, Foreign, Gender-Based Violence, Laws and Policies, Newspaper Article/Feature, Social Development / By

This article argues that processes of social reproduction are central to our understanding of body formation under capitalism. This paper develops the concept of uneven body as a more holistic approach integrating into corporeal geography a social reproduction lens. Asset Type: Publications Collection: Other Philippine Publications Subject: Uneven body, Social reproduction, Capitalism, Food distribution, Britain …

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From HerStory and Beyond: Five Decades of the Philippine Commission on Women

2021-present, Audio, Book/Handbook/Booklet, Economic Development, Gender, Gender Mainstreaming, PCW Multimedia, Video, Women's Organizations / By

Herstory and Beyond is a documentary that chronicles the 50-year journey of the Philippine Commission on Women—formerly the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women—in its pursuit of making gender equality a lived reality for all. This is a story of one people, one nation, and one commission. An epitome of the Bagong Pilipinas …

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