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A Feminist Critique of the Alleged Southern Debt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Alison M. Jaggar
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Abstract

Neoliberal globalization has deepened the impoverishment and marginalization of many women. This system is maintained by the debt supposedly owed by many poor nations in the global South to a few rich nations in the global North, because the obligation to service the debt traps the people of the South within an economic order that severely disadvantages them. I offer several reasons for thinking that many of these alleged debt obligations are not morally binding, especially on Southern women.

Type
Highlights from the 9th Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers, October 2000, Zurich, Switzerland
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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , Fall 2002 , pp. 119 - 142
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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