Month: November 2011

“The Economy of Shame”: a review of Lamia Karim’s book “Microfinance and Its Discontents”

“The Economy of Shame” (Women’s Review of Books, Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, November/December 2011) Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh by Lamia Karim (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2011, 255 pp., $25.00, paperback) Reviewed by Ghazal Zulfiqar…

2011 Surrency Prize to Michelle McKinley for “Fractional Freedoms”

Surrency prize to McKinley, “Fractional Freedoms”. November 15, 2011 University of Oregon law professor Michelle McKinley was named this year’s winner of the Surrency prize, awarded by the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) for the best article published in…