Article Type
Research Article
Abstract
This article presents a feminist constructivist political economy perspective on the role of women’s enterprise development in modern times. Through establishing women’s enterprise as an aesthetic of good institutions rooted in the microcredit movement of the late twentieth century but with expanded resurgence into the global North in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, I illustrate how female (micro)enterprise programs afforded moral legitimacy to international organizations, NGOs, and later corporations, financial institutions, and states in ways that downplayed individual and systemic empowerment.
Keywords
feminist political economy, entrepreneurship, microfinance, social reproduction
Recommended Citation
Langworthy, Melissa
(2023)
"Towards an institutional aesthetic of women’s entrepreneurship: A political economy perspective,"
Arab Economic and Business Journal: Vol. 15
:
Iss.
2
, Article 2.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.38039/2214-4625.1027
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