Disease and Discrimination (eBook, PDF)

Gender Discrimination during the Pandemic in South Asia and Beyond
Redaktion: Nag, Sourav Kumar

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines disease in the context of gender discrimination. It highlights and explores how socio-economic, political, cultural, and gender dimensions play a crucial role in understanding and defining disease.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040042793
• Artikelnr.: 70558807

Autorenporträt

Sourav Kumar Nag is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Culture Studies at Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya under Bankura University, India. He has contributed significantly to the field of critical studies, translation, and creative writing. He has published his articles in sundry national and international journals of repute.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Section 1: Gender Discrimination, Diseases, and Covid-19 1.
Cataclysmic Impact of the Pandemic on Women: COVID-19 and Gender
Discrimination 2. Stigma of Illness: Queer Sickness during the Covid-19
Pandemic 3. Racial Inequity in COVID: Health Disparities and Violence
towards Women of Colour 4. Abortion Access in Canada and the Impacts of
Covid-19 5. The (In)Visibility of Global Gender Inequality: Examining U.S.
News Coverage on Women's Experiences of Violence During COVID-19 6.
EmpowHERed' Health: Reforming a Dismissive Health care System Section 2:
Gender Discrimination in the Literary Narratives A. Narratives of Illness
in Literature from South Asia 7. Disease, Treatment, and Discrimination:
Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Treatment of Bibi Haldar" 8. Humayun Ahmed's In
Blissful Hell: A Study of Counter-hegemonic Cultural Practice from the
Perspectives of Gender and Sexuality 9. Rabindranath Tagore's Approach to
Gender Discrimination and Disease in Select Short Stories B. Narratives of
Illness Beyond South Asia 10. "Mental" Illness: Subjectivity in Shahd
Alshammari's Notes on the Flesh and Lauren Slater's Lying 11. Women's
Abandonment and Illness in African Literature 12. Psychological Concerns or
Protest: Unveiling the Mystery in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow
Wallpaper" 13. "Every disease had a story with a beginning, middle, and
end": Interrogating Anorexia Nervosa in Emma Donoghue's The Wonder