Sugar and Tension : : Diabetes and Gender in Modern India /

Sugar and Tension : : Diabetes and Gender in Modern India / / Lesley Jo Weaver.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Weaver, Lesley Jo,
MitwirkendeR:
Manderson, Lenore,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]
©2019
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Medical Anthropology
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Physical Description:1 online resource (202 p.) :; 5
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • 1. OPENING A WINDOW ON DIABETES EXPERIENCE
  • 2. SEEKING MODERN INDIA
  • 3. BALANCE
  • 4. TENSION
  • 5. SACRIFICE
  • 6. RESILIENCE
  • 7. CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX: METHODOLOGICAL NOTES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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