Disease and Discrimination

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>This book will be beneficial to students and researchers of gender studies pandemic studies literature anthropology social sciences and disease humanities.</p>