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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
