The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19

PART I. TRAINING A GENDER LENS ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

1. Introduction: Researching Gender and COVID-19

Aziza Ahmed and Linda C. McClain

2. Law as a Determinant of Health: COVID-19 and Gender

Michael Thomson

3. Health Justice: Feminism, Universalism, and Vulnerability in Pandemic Response

Lindsay F. Wiley and Seema Mohapatra

4. We Are Not in This Together: Toward a Feminist Public Finance

Jamee K. Moudud

PART II. FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES

5. Gender, COVID, and Care

Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levit

6. Pandemics, Privatization, and Public Education

Melissa Murray and Caitlin Millat

7. Pandemic Impact and Women’s Resilience in China

Xiaoqian Hu, Yanliu Tao, and Qichen Zhang

8. The Promise and Perils of Technology and Gender in the Courts

Naomi M. Mann

9. Lessons from Pandemic Co-parenting: Toward Family Mediation that Centers Low-Income, Never-Married Black Mothers

Tianna N. Gibbs

10. Queer Inequality: The COVID-19 Spotlight

Erez Aloni

PART III. ECONOMY, LABOR, AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION

11. Care and Economic Crisis

Lyn Ossome

12. COVID-19 and Vulnerable Groups: Experiences of Sexual Minorities in Barbados

Daniele Bobb and Leigh-Ann Worrell

13. Does the EU COVID-19 Recovery Plan Care About Care?

Irena Rosenthal

14. The Resilience of Gender Equality: How COVID-19 Was Gendered in Norway

Mari Teigen and Kjersti Misje Østbakken

15. Manufacturing Crisis, Exacerbating Vulnerabilities: A Feminist Perspective on Crisis, Calamity, and the Political Economy of Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Saru M. Matambanadzo

16. COVID-19 She-Cession: The Employment Penalty of Childcare

Stefania Fabrizio, Diego B. P. Gomes, and Marina M. Tavares

17. After the “Shecession”: Post-Pandemic Law and Policy for Working Mothers

Julie C. Suk

18. Gender Inequality and the Increase of Unpaid Care Work in Mexico During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Itzel Mayans and Moisés Vaca

PART IV. HEALTH

19. Applying HIV Activism's Public Health Approach to Defeat COVID

Scott Skinner-Thompson

20. Masculinity, Partisanship, and Responses to COVID-19 in the US

Dan Cassino and Yasemin Besen-Cassino

21. Gendered Effects of U.S. Pandemic Border Policy on Migrants from Central America

Medha D. Makhlouf

22. Gender and Human Rights in the Context of COVID-19

Alice M. Miller and Mindy Roseman

23. Lockdowns, Gender, and Health

Jeni Klugman, Rifqah Abeeda Roomaney, Avantika Ranjan, Kanksha Barman, and Indrani Gupta

PART V. REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

24. The Resilience of Reproductive Rights

Rachel Rebouché

25. Reproductive Justice for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond

Robyn M. Powell

26. The Shift of Medication Abortion Care Delivery Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on the Future of Sexual and Reproductive Health in the United States

Rebekah Rollston

27. Abortion Access in a Post-COVID and Post-Roe World

Maya Manian

28. Religious Exemptions and Gender Equality in a Pandemic

Elizabeth Sepper

29. Impact of COVID-19 on the Reproductive Rights of Marginalized Women in India

Jayshree Satpute

30. Access to Abortion During COVID-19 in India: Gaps and Challenges

Dipika Jain and Krithika Balu

PART VI. POLITICS AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP

31. Sharing is Caring: Women of Color California State Legislators Take to Facebook During COVID-19 Lockdowns as a Form of Constituent Services

Erik Hanson, Michael Strawbridge, Nadia E. Brown, and Natalie Masuoka

32. Women’s Leadership is Associated with Few COVID-19 Deaths and Better Communication

Supriya Garikipati, Uma Kambhampati, and Abhilash Kondraganti

33. Leadership in the Lands Down Under? A Comparative Print Media Analysis of the Morrison and Ardern Government COVID-19 Responses

Blair Williams

34. The Gendered Effects of COVID in Colombia: Looking Beyond the Numbers

Helena Alviar García, Lina Buchely Ibarra, and Laura Porras Santanilla

35. COVID-19, International Trade Law and the Gendered Dimensions of the Global Vaccine Apartheid: A Rights-Based Analysis

Jackie Dugard, Mandivavarira Mudarikwa, and Nicola Soekoe

Biography

Linda C. McClain is the Robert Kent Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law and co-director of the BU Program in Reproductive Justice. Her areas of interest include family law, gender and law, feminist legal theory, civil rights, and law and literature. Among her books are Who’s the Bigot? Learning from Conflicts Over Marriage and Civil Rights Law (2020), Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues (2013) with James E. Fleming, The Place of Families: Fostering Capacity, Equality, and Responsibility (2006), and the co-authored Contemporary Family Law (6th ed. 2023).

Aziza Ahmed is Professor of Law and N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health Law at the Boston University School of Law and co-director of the BU Program on Reproductive Justice. Her work focuses on the interactions between law, science, and politics with a focus on gender and health. She is the author of the forthcoming book Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS. Professor Ahmed is on the board of Our Bodies, Our Selves and the advisory board of the Lawyering Project. She has previously served on the board of the ACLU of Massachusetts.

"Arundhati Roy famously urged us to use the pandemic as a portal to a more just future. This powerful collection reveals the gendered paradoxes of COVID—from intersectional, comparative, and interdisciplinary perspectives— uncovering alarming insights and offering thoughtful solutions that call for a new ethics, politics, and law of care, community, and connection, even while our pandemics of inequality, poverty, and disinformation continue to rage."

Catherine Powell, Eunice Carter Distinguished Research Scholar Professor of Law, Fordham Law School

"In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, out of “all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman.” Those words were prescient and surfaced powerfully during the triple pandemics of COVID-19, systemic racism, and sexism – with both the “color and gender of COVID-19” on vivid display. This essential volume allows us to understand the intersectional way that gendered and raced effects operate using the “pandemic as a portal” to expose how COVID-19 exacerbates preexisting disparities and amplifies their disparate impact. This insightful book helps us to consider more fully how to rectify health inequities."

Matiangai Sirleaf, Nathan Patz Professor of Law, University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law

“This volume exemplifies how sex and gender influence health through an important, unique set of multidisciplinary, multi-country analyses.  While the effects of COVID-19 are acute in our memory—and continue to surface in everyday life—this volume provides us with analytical approaches that should inform policy and research for years to come.  As the pieces from India illustrate, public health understanding or action is incomplete without incisive analyses of the legal, economic and social forces that shape it.”

Sapna Desai, Senior Fellow, Population Council Institute, India; Member, India Task Force of the Lancet Commission on COVID-19

"The Routledge Companion to Gender and Covid is a timely volume which helps readers to reflect on government responses and recovery initiatives. It discusses the possibilities and challenges of policies and responses that serve as a resource for dealing with future pandemics. It is a must-read for policymakers and researchers who are working on gender, health and reproductive health, law and diseases."

Melody Kshetrimayum, FLAME University, Pune, India