A Feminist Reading of Debt

'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

Luc Cavallero is a researcher at the University of Buenos Aires. Her work focuses on the link between debt, illegal capital, and different forms of violence. She is a feminist activist and member of the Ni Una Menos Collective. Vernica Gago teaches Political Science at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and is a Professor of Sociology at the Instituto de Altos Estudios, Universidad Nacional de San Martin. She is the author of Feminist International (Verso, 2020) and Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies (Duke University Press, 2017). She is a feminist activist and member of the Ni Una Menos Collective.

Foreword by Tithi Bhattacharya Translators 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. Gentlemens 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