The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19 / edited by Linda C. McClain and Aziza Ahmed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McClain, Linda C., editor.

Ahmed, Aziza, editor.

Series:

Routledge companions to gender.

Routledge companions to gender

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 (Disease).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 448 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, England : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Covid-19 is the first comprehensive research guide for researchers and students who seek to study and evaluate the complex relationship between gender and COVID-19, and is an essential volume for scholars and students of Law, Gender Studies, Sociology, Health, Economics and Politics.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Endorsements

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Figures

Tables

Boxes

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Part I: Training a Gender Lens on the COVID-19 Pandemic

1. Introduction: Researching Gender and COVID-19

Introduction: The Gendered Effects of COVID-19

Researching Gender and COVID-19: An Overview of This Volume

Part I. Introduction: Training a Gender Lens on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Part II. Families and Communities

Part III. Economy, Labor, and Social Reproduction

Part IV. Health

Part V. Reproductive Health

Part VI. Politics and Political Leadership

References

2. Law as a Determinant of Health: COVID-19 and Gender

Introduction

Health Inequalities and Law

COVID-19 and Gender Inequalities

High-Income Countries

Social Determinants of Health, Inequalities, and Law

The Challenges of Inequality

Conclusion

3. Health Justice: Feminism, Universalism, and Vulnerability in Pandemic Response

Health Justice

Feminist Legal Theory and Critical Race Feminism: The Roles of Universalism and Vulnerability in Realizing Health Justice

Health Justice, Contextualized Universalism, Gender, and COVID-19

4. We Are Not in This Together: Toward a Feminist Public Finance

Beyond the Washington Consensus: Law and Political Economy and Social Provisioning

The Constitutional Theory of Money: Variants of Monetary Hardwiring

From Social Provisioning to Gendered National Budgets

The Undemocratic Virus and the Quest for Sovereignty: Unpacking "Sovereignty

Note

Part II: Families and Communities

5. Gender, COVID, and Care

Childcare During the Pandemic

History

Pandemic Policy Possibilities and the Childcare Emergency.

Support for Out-of-Home Childcare

FMLA Leave

Child Tax Credit

Eldercare

Post-Pandemic Initiatives

6. Pandemics, Privatization, and Public Education

Dependency and the American Welfare State

Privatizing Public Education in a Pandemic

7. Pandemic Impact and Women's Resilience in China

Data Sources

COVID-19's Gendered Impact

Economic Security

Workload

Personal Well-Being

Areas of Contention

Family and Women's Pandemic Life

Attitude Toward Government Pandemic Policy

Conclusion: Knowing Gender and COVID-19 in China

8. The Promise and Perils of Technology and Gender in the Courts

The Changing Uses of Technology in State Courts

Consequences of Technology

Technology Has the Capacity to Open the Court System to More Users

Technology Can Layer New Access Barriers

Who Can Meet the Technology Access Baseline

Differentiation by Quality of Technology Access

Technology Access Choices Have Critical Consequences

Principles Moving Forward

Center Access to Justice

Conduct Litigant Technology Intakes

Consider Using a "Common Denominator" Rule

Allow for Flexibility

Leverage Technology to Reduce Gaps

Maintain the Spirit of Innovation

9. Lessons from Pandemic Co-parenting: Toward Family Mediation that Centers Low-Income, Never-Married Black Mothers

Co-parenting Explained

Increased Potential for Disputes among Pandemic Co-parents

Decreased Dispute Resolution Options for Pandemic Co-parents

The Benefits and Challenges of Family Mediation

A Path Forward

10. Queer Inequality: The COVID-19 Spotlight

The Distinctive Impact on LGBTQ+ People.

Health Challenges to Sexual Minorities: The Roles of Intersecting Factors

Other Complicating Factors: Issues Relevant to Sexual Minorities

Trans, Non-binary and Other Gender Nonconforming People

Economic Harm

Future Agenda: Accounting for LGBTQ+ People in the Next Pandemic

Antidiscrimination Protections

Recognizing Diverse Relationships

Structural Inequalities

Notes

Part III: Economy, Labor, and Social Reproduction

11. Care and Economic Crisis

A Global South Vantage Point of Care

Care and the Agrarian South

COVID-19 and the Reproductive Crisis

12. COVID-19 and Vulnerable Groups: Experiences of Sexual Minorities in Barbados

Historicizing the Community in Barbados and the Wider Caribbean

Sex Work within Caribbean Sexual Relations

The Economic Impact of COVID-19 on LGBTQ+ Community

13. Does the EU COVID-19 Recovery Plan Care About Care?

The European Care Crisis and EU Support for Care

The Pandemic and the European Care Infrastructure

Care in the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility

14. The Resilience of Gender Equality: How COVID-19 Was Gendered in Norway

Gender Equality and the COVID-19 Policy Response

Data and Empirical Strategy

Employment by Gender and Industry

Employment and Exposure to COVID-19

Discussion

15. Manufacturing Crisis, Exacerbating Vulnerabilities: A Feminist Perspective on Crisis, Calamity, and the Political Economy of Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Feminist Perspectives on the State and Political Economy

Politics, Law, and Manufactured Crisis During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Gender, Work, and Political Economy During the COVID-19 Pandemic

16. COVID-19 She-Cession: The Employment Penalty of Childcare

COVID-19 and Female Employment: Related Research

Labor Market During the Pandemic: A Gender Perspective

Measuring Women's Employment Penalty: A Regression Approach

Appendix I: Sample Characteristics

17. After the "Shecession": Post-Pandemic Law and Policy for Working Mothers

The Pandemic "Shecession

Law and Policy Responses

Temporary Relief

New EEOC Guidelines on Caregiver Discrimination

Pregnancy Discrimination Litigation

Passage of the Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act

Transnational Outlook: COVID and Constitutional Change

18. Gender Inequality and the Increase of Unpaid Care Work in Mexico During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Increased Inequality

An Intensified Gender Inequality Crisis

Some Mitigation Strategies

Part IV: Health

19. Applying HIV Activism's Public Health Approach to Defeat COVID

HIV Activism's Enduring Legacy Fighting COVID

Room for Cure: Ways to Better Apply HIV Activism's Lessons to COVID

20. Masculinity, Partisanship, and Responses to COVID-19 in the U.S.

Measuring Masculinity

Masculinity, Partisanship, and Large Gatherings During COVID

The Dynamics of Men's Vaccination Rates

Masculinity, Cross Pressures, and Social Identity Displays

21. Gendered Effects of U.S. Pandemic Border Policy on Migrants from Central America

Risks Faced by Women and Girl Migrants on the Journey North

Replicating Vulnerability Through Pandemic Border Policy.

Addressing Multiple and Intersecting Vulnerabilities in Global Public Health

22. Gender and Human Rights in the Context of COVID-19

UN Guidance

Treaty Bodies

Charter Bodies

UN Agencies

Wrapping Up International Human Rights Guidance

State COVID Policies and Gender Rights

Gender Stereotypes: Text, Pretext, and Context

Gender as Text: Naturalized Gender Binary as a "Sorting Tool" for Social Control

COVID Quarantine Policy as Pretext: Repression Against LGBTQ+ Persons

Public Health Priority Setting as Pretext: Denying Access to Abortion

COVID Policies in Context: India's Gendered Disregard for Migrant Workers

23. Lockdowns, Gender, and Health

Methods

Emerging Findings

Violence Against Women

Safety and Security for Community Health Workers

Sexual and Reproductive Health

Lack of Proper Menstrual Hygiene

Lack of Access to Family Planning

Maternal Health Services

Nutrition

Implications for Ways Forward

Part V: Reproductive Health

24. The Resilience of Reproductive Rights

Suspending Abortion Care at the Pandemic's Onset

State Policies on Essential Services

The Aftermath of the Suspensions

Regulating Medication Abortion

FDA's Regulation of Medication Abortion

The Next Frontier of Abortion Access

Future Directions for Abortion Law

25. Reproductive Justice for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond

Reproductive Justice and Disabled People

Overview of Reproductive Justice

Importance of Reproductive Justice for Disabled People

Threats to Reproductive Justice for Disabled People: Before and During COVID-19

Reproductive Health and Healthcare Inequities.

Barriers to Contraception and Abortion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-003-86137-7

1-003-26790-4

1-003-86131-8

9781003267904

OCLC:

1416756377