Sugar and Tension
Diabetes and Gender in Modern India
Seiten
2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0300-8 (ISBN)
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0300-8 (ISBN)
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 are taking shape in contemporary 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 are taking shape in contemporary India. Weaver argues that although women’s domestic care of others may be at odds with the self-care mandates of biomedically-managed diabetes, these roles nevertheless do important cultural work that may buffer women’s mental and physical health by fostering social belonging. Weaver describes how women negotiate the many responsibilities in their lives when chronic disease is at stake. As women weigh their options, the choices they make raise questions about whose priorities should count in domestic, health, and family worlds. The varied experiences of women illustrate that there are many routes to living well or poorly with diabetes, and these are not always the ones canonized in biomedical models of diabetes management.
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 are taking shape in contemporary India. Weaver argues that although women’s domestic care of others may be at odds with the self-care mandates of biomedically-managed diabetes, these roles nevertheless do important cultural work that may buffer women’s mental and physical health by fostering social belonging. Weaver describes how women negotiate the many responsibilities in their lives when chronic disease is at stake. As women weigh their options, the choices they make raise questions about whose priorities should count in domestic, health, and family worlds. The varied experiences of women illustrate that there are many routes to living well or poorly with diabetes, and these are not always the ones canonized in biomedical models of diabetes management.
Lesley Jo Weaver is an assistant professor of medical anthropology in the department of international studies at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.11.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 5 |
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Diabetologie |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-9788-0300-1 / 1978803001 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-9788-0300-8 / 9781978803008 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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