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Feminism, Women’s Agency, and Subjective Well-Being: Women’s Experiences of Village Community Banks in Tanzania

Tanzania Journal of Development Studies

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Title Feminism, Women’s Agency, and Subjective Well-Being: Women’s Experiences of Village Community Banks in Tanzania
 
Creator MWAIPOPO, ROSEMARIE; university od Dar es Salaam
DAUDA, MASOUD; UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
 
Subject micro-credit, well-being, women’s agency
 
Description AbstractThis study addresses some limitations in the understanding of the relationship between micro-credit facilities and women's empowerment, particularly when seen in terms of micro-credit's capacity to reduce the vulnerabilities of resource-poor households and to encourage women's engagement in providing for themselves with basic needs. Although such empowerment, seen through its material implications, may be limited in confronting macro-structural processes within which exclusion and exploitation are firmly rooted, many studies put less emphasis on how it may stimulate women’s self-appreciation and agency. Using a qualitative analysis of Village Community Banks (VICOBA) in Tanzania, this article shows how women experience ownership of the processes related to VICOBA as a resource for agency, and how, through such ownership, they claim empowerment as individuals; and interpret their actions within VICOBA as expressive of their subjective well-being.
 
Publisher UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2020-06-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/tjds/article/view/3424
 
Source Tanzania Journal of Development Studies; Vol 17, No 2 (2019): TANZANIA JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
25916831
08569922
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/tjds/article/view/3424/3297
https://journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/tjds/article/view/3424/3311
 
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