Women and COVID-19 A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work and Community

1. Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work, and Community

2. Intimate Partner Violence in Pandemic Times: The Experiences of Pregnant Women in Ibadan North, Oyo State, Nigeria

Alabi Oluwatobi Joseph and Akindele Favour Atinuke

3. COVID-19 and Gender-Based Violence: Experiences of Zimbabwean Flood Victims

Takunda Mathathu, Mariam Seedat-Khan, and Thomas Gumbo

Part II: Health

4. Autoethnography as a Lens to Understand Women and COVID-19 Care in South Africa

5. Community Health Workers – COVID-19 Lived Experiences: The Case of Jharkhand, India

Ujjwala Gupta

6. The Association of People with Sickle Cell Disease (APEDFI) and Associated Black Women With in Ilhéus-BA (Brazil) During The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Sociological Analysis

7. Filipina Caregivers and Mental Health under COVID-19: Impacts of Transnational Obligations and Precarious Work on Migrant Care Workers in the United States of America

Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, Elaika Janin Celemen, Edwin Carlos, and Chloe Janelle Punsalan

8. Supermarket Women Cashiers Closing Social Distancing Gaps: The Artificial World of Affective Labour?

9. Lest We Forget the Individual behind the Successful Woman: Chronicles of Indonesian Domestic Workers in Malaysian Households

10. Deaf Women in Malaysia: The Unspoken Truth About Their Experiences And Challenges Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

Wan Puspa Melati

11. Female Academics’ Career Progression and Motivation during COVID-19: An African Perspective

12. The Impact of Japanese Schools’ Policy Responses to COVID-19 on Filipino Women Assistant Language Teachers

Tricia Abigail Santos Fermin and Johanna O. Zulueta

13. The Educational Impact Of COVID-19 On Lone Mothers in The Global South

Aradhana Ramnund-Mansingh and Mariam Seedat-Khan

14. Women’s Memories in Brazilian Pandemic Times: Narratives of Migrants to Reframe Histories

15. Impact of COVID-19 on Policy and Support Services for Migrant Women Experiencing DV in Semi-Rural Areas of the UK

16. At whose cost? Vulnerable Female Migrants with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) during the COVID-19 Crisis in England

Benedicte Brahic, Kim Heyes, and Shoba Arun

17. Women Behind Bars in the United States: A Hidden and Vulnerable Population in Pandemic Times

18. Food or Data: The Realities of the Online Teaching Transition during COVID-19 in South Africa

Mariam Seedat-Khan, Quraisha Dawood and Aradhana Ramnund-Mansingh

19. New Clinical Sociology for a Post-COVID World

20. Reflections on COVID-19: Interventions and Changes

Biography

Mariam Seedat-Khan is Professor of Sociology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where she is head of the clinical sociology postgraduate programme. She is also a visiting professor at Taylor’s University, Malaysia, vice president-elect of the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology (AACS) and an executive member of the Clinical Sociology Research Committee (RC46) of the International Sociological Association (ISA). She is an NRF-rated researcher and certified clinical sociologist who explores applied and clinical teaching and learning disabilities. She is the author of Domestic Workers and Socialisation in South Africa (2009) and co-editor of Sociology: A South African Perspective (2016).

Johanna O. Zulueta is Professor of Sociology at Toyo University, Japan. She is also a visiting professor at Taylor’s University, Malaysia, and a member of the steering committee of the Philippine Migration Research Network (PMRN). Her research explores issues of gender, ethnicity, and immigration in East and Southeast Asia. She is the author of Transnational Identities on Okinawa’s Military Bases: Invisible Armies (2020), and Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei (Routledge, 2022), and editor of Thinking Beyond the State: Migration, Integration, and Citizenship in Japan and the Philippines (2018) and co-editor of Japan: Migration and a Multicultural Society (2014).