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A Feminist Critique of the Alleged Southern Debt
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 17, Number 4, Fall 2002
- pp. 119-142
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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.