Sugar and tension : diabetes and gender in modern India /

Women in North India are socialized to care for others, so what do they do when they get a disease like diabetes that requires intensive self-care? 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weaver, Lesley Jo (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Colección:Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
Temas:
Diabetes in women > India.
Women > Health and hygiene > India.
Women > Diseases > India.
Diabète chez la femme > Inde.
Femmes > Maladies > Inde.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Diabetes in women
Women > Diseases
Women > Health and hygiene
India
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Opening a window on diabetes experience
  • Seeking modern India
  • Balance: the moral and practical work of diabetes management
  • Tension: diabetes, distress, and mental health
  • Sacrifice: domesticity and care among women with diabetes
  • Resilience: living well with diabetes
  • Conclusion: diabetes as life

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