Cancer and the Kali Yuga : Gender, Inequality, and Health in South India.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dalit women--Cancer--Treatment--India--Tamil Nadu--21st century.

Dalit women.

Dalit women--Health and hygiene--India--Tamil Nadu--21st century.

Dalit women--India--Tamil Nadu--Economic conditions--21st century.

Dalit women--India--Tamil Nadu--Social conditions--21st century.

Equality--India--Tamil Nadu--21st century.

Equality.

Public health--India--Tamil Nadu--21st century.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2022.

Summary:

As news spread that more women died from breast and cervical cancer in India than anywhere else in the world in the early twenty-first century, global public health planners accelerated efforts to prevent, screen, and treat these reproductive cancers in low-income Indian communities. Cancer and the Kali Yuga reveals that women who are the targets of these interventions in Tamil Nadu, South India, hold views about cancer causality, late diagnosis, and challenges to accessing treatment that differ from the public health discourse. Cecilia Coale Van Hollen's critical feminist ethnography centers and amplifies the voices of Dalit Tamil women who situate cancer within the nexus of their class, caste, and gender positions. Dalit women's narratives about their experiences with cancer present a powerful and poignant critique of the sociocultural and political-economic conditions that marginalize them and jeopardize their health and well-being in twenty-first-century India.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Note on Time of Writing and Transliteration

Introduction

1. History and Hospitals

2. Poverty and Chemicals

3. Women and Work

4. Screening and Morality

5. Disclosure and Care

6. Biomedicine and Bodies

7. Sorcery and Religion

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520386556

0520386558

OCLC:

1342503220