Towards an institutional aesthetic of women’s entrepreneurship: A political economy perspective

This article presents a feminist constructivist political economy perspective on the role of women’s enterprise development in modern times. Through establishing as an aesthetic good institutions rooted microcredit movement late twentieth century but with expanded resurgence into global North aftermath 2008 financial crisis, I illustrate how female (micro)enterprise programs afforded moral legitimacy to international organizations, NGOs, and later corporations, institutions, states ways that downplayed individual systemic empowerment.