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Disease and Discrimination Gender Discrimination during the Pandemic in South Asia and Beyond
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.
Through two broad categories – non-literary and literary – the volume discusses concerns such as media representation of gender, racial violence, domestic violence, and healthcare discrimination during Covid-19 pandemic, and focuses on the literary representation of gender discrimination related to diseases within and beyond South Asia. The chapters are based on fieldwork, demographic investigations, and statistics that offer a clear and comprehensive insight into the problems.
This book will be beneficial to students and researchers of gender studies, pandemic studies, literature, anthropology, social sciences, and disease humanities.
Introduction
Sourav Kumar Nag
Section I: Gender Discrimination, Diseases, and Covid-19
1. Cataclysmic Impact of the Pandemic on Women: COVID-19 and Gender Discrimination
Samragngi Roy and Amartya Seth
2. Stigma of Illness: Queer Sickness during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Subhadeep Paul and Paulomi Banerjee Mitra
3. Racial Inequity in COVID: Health Disparities and Violence towards Women of Colour
Brandon Cockburn and Brendon Tran
4. Abortion Access in Canada and the Impacts of Covid-19
Maria O’Leary
5. The (In)Visibility of Global Gender Inequality: Examining U.S. News Coverage on Women’s Experiences of Violence During COVID-19
Amy C. Miller and Mari A. DeWees
6. EmpowHERed’ Health: Reforming a Dismissive Health care System
S. Mayumi Grigsby
Section II: 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”
Ankur Konar
8. Humayun Ahmed’s In Blissful Hell: A Study of Counter-hegemonic Cultural Practice from the Perspectives of Gender and Sexuality
Elham Hossain
9. Rabindranath Tagore’s Approach to Gender Discrimination and Disease in Select Short Stories
Tilak Batabyal
B. Narratives of Illness Beyond South Asia
10. “Mental” Illness: Subjectivity in Shahd Alshammari’s Notes on the Flesh and Lauren Slater’s Lying
Farah Alyagout
11. Women’s Abandonment and Illness in African Literature
Thomas Jay Lynn
12. Psychological Concerns or Protest: Unveiling the Mystery in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Tuhin Majumdar
13. “Every disease had a story with a beginning, middle, and end”: Interrogating Anorexia Nervosa in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder
Poulomi Modak
Biography
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.
