ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|104 pages
Gender Discrimination, Diseases, and COVID-19
chapter 5|11 pages
The (In)Visibility of Global Gender Inequality
part Section II|78 pages
Gender Discrimination in the Literary Narratives
part A|28 pages
Narratives of Illness in Literature from South Asia
chapter 7|7 pages
Disease, Treatment, and Discrimination
chapter 8|8 pages
Humayun Ahmed's In Blissful Hell
part B|48 pages
Narratives of Illness Beyond South Asia