Full Description
Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work and Community focuses on women's lived experiences amid the pandemic, emphasising migrant labourers, ethnic minorities, the poor and disenfranchised, the incarcerated, and victims of gender-based violence, to explore the impact of the pandemic on women.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted and exacerbated pervasive gender inequalities in homes, schools, and workplaces in the developed world and the Global South. Female workers, particularly those from poor or ethnic minority backgrounds, were often the first to lose their jobs amidst unprecedented layoffs and economic uncertainty. National lockdowns and widespread restrictions blurred the boundaries between work and home life and increased the burden of domestic work on women within patriarchal societies. This so-called 'new normal' in everyday life also exposed women to increased levels of gender-based violence and the likelihood of contracting COVID-19 due to overcrowding. This edited volume includes contributions from leading applied and clinical sociologists working and living in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas and gives a global overview of the impact of the pandemic on women. Each chapter adopts an applied and clinical sociological approach in analysing gendered vulnerabilities. The volume innovatively uses personal accounts, including narratives, interviews, autoethnographies, and focus group discussions, to explore women's lived experiences during the pandemic.
This edited collection will greatly interest students, academics, and researchers in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in gender and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Contents
Introduction 1. Women on The Edge of COVID-19: A Clinical Focus on Family, Work and Community Part 1: Gender Based Violence 2. Intimate Partner Violence in Pandemic Times: The Experiences of Pregnant Women in Ibadan North, Oyo State Nigeria 3. COVID-19 and Gender-Based Violence: Experiences of Zimbabwean Flood Victims Part II: Health 4. Autoethnography as a lens to understand Women and COVID-19 Care in South Africa 5. Community Health Workers: A narrative enquiry of experiences about working through COVID-19 in Jharkhand, India 6. The Association of People with Sickle Cell Disease (APEDFI) and Black Women With Sickle Cell Disease In Ilhéus-BA (Brazil) During The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Sociological Analysis 7. Filipina Caregivers and Mental Health under COVID-19: Impacts of Transnational Obligations and Precarious Work on Migrant Care Workers in the United States Part III: Work 8. Supermarket Women Cashiers Closing Social Distancing Gaps: The artificial world of affective labour? 9. Lest We Forget the Individual behind the Successful Woman: Chronicles of Indonesian Domestic Helpers in Malaysian Households 10. Deaf Women in Malaysia: The Unspoken Truth About Their Experiences And Challenges Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic Part IV: Education 11. Female academics' career progression and motivation during COVID-19: An African perspective 12. The Impact Of COVID-19 School Policies on Assistant Language Teachers In Japan 13. The Educational Impact Of COVID-19 On Lone Mothers in The Global South Part V: Migration 14. Women's Memories in Brazilian Pandemic Times: Narratives of Migrants to Reframe Histories 15. Impact of COVID-19 on policy and support services for migrant women experiencing DV in semi-rural areas of the UK 16. At whose cost? Vulnerable female migrants with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) during the COVID-19 crisis in England Part VI: Adversity and Resilience 17. Women Behind Bars in the United States: A Hidden and Vulnerable Population in Pandemic Times 18. "Food or Data" The realities of the Online Teaching transition during COVID-19 in South Africa Part VII: Conclusion: Interventions and Change 19. New Clinical Sociology for a Post-COVID-19 World 20. Reflections on COVID-19: Interventions and Changes
