Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India
(Part of the Medical Anthropology Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1978803001
ISBN13:9781978803008
Release Date:December 2018
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:202 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
Grade Range:Grade 11 and higher
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