Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India

by Lesley Jo Weaver

Book Overview

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