Living with an Infected Planet: Covid-19, Feminism, and the Global Frontline of Care

by Elke Krasny

We must declare war on the virus, stated UN chief Ant nio Guterres on March 13, 2020, just two days after the WHO had characterized the outbreak of the novel Covid-19 virus as a pandemic. Elke Krasny introduces feminist worry in order then to develop a feminist cultural theory on pandemic frontline ontologies, which give rise to militarized care essentialism and forced heroism. Feminist hope is gained through the attentive reading of feminist recovery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3837659151
• ISBN13: 9783837659153
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Transcript Publishing
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"