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This paper uses the analysis of monetary circulation as a methodological strategy that allows us to show how social worlds fit together to reinforce or to challenge certain gender assessments. In particular, our proposal aims to problemacize the boundaries that organize the family’s economic life and the political world in the popular sectors. The article is based on an ethnographic description of the life of a woman who lives in a poor neighborhood of the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, whose everyday life takes place between the obligations that shape her involvement in a local policy network, and as a person charge of the household economy [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the uses of money, both the money which comes from the microcredit program that is being analyzed and that which is obtained by women from the sale of various products and services. It also analyzes the ways in which resources are labeled according to the meanings attributed to them. From this perspective, the paper unravels interweaving of non-monetary and non-commercial aspects within economic relationships and processes in order to understand how production and sales practices intermingle interwoven with expectations and commitment with family and social networks, and in turn, sales and purchases transactions, loans and investments are carried out within the framework of these relationships [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]