Lesley Jo Weaver

Sugar and Tension

Diabetes and Gender in Modern India

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Produktbeschreibung

In Sugar and Tension, Lesley Jo Weaver uses women’s experiences with diabetes in New Delhi as a lens to explore how gendered roles and expectations are taking shape in contemporary India. Weaver describes how women negotiate the many responsibilities in their lives when chronic disease is at stake. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978803015
• ISBN-10: 197880301X
• Artikelnr.: 53532342

Autorenporträt

Lesley Jo Weaver is an assistant professor of medical anthropology in the department of international studies at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Opening a Window on Diabetes Experience
Chapter 2: Seeking Modern India
Chapter 3: Balance: The Moral and Practical Work of Diabetes Management
Chapter 4: Tension: Diabetes, Distress, and Mental Health
Chapter 5: Sacrifice: Domesticity and Care Among Women with Diabetes
Chapter 6: Resilience: Living Well with Diabetes
Chapter 7: Conclusions: Diabetes as Life
Appendix
References
Index