Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work and Community

Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work, and Community explores the impact of the pandemic on women, particularly migrant laborers, ethnic minorities, the poor, and disenfranchised, the incarcerated, and victims of gender-based violence. The volume includes contributions from leading applied and clinical sociologists from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas and uses personal accounts to explore women's lived experiences.

Format: Hardback
Length: 314 pages
Publication date: 29 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work and Community

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on women's lives, highlighting and exacerbating pervasive gender inequalities in homes, schools, and workplaces in the developed world and the Global South. Female workers, particularly those from poor or ethnic minority backgrounds, were often the first to lose their jobs amidst unprecedented layoffs and economic uncertainty. National lockdowns and widespread restrictions blurred the boundaries between work and home life and increased the burden of domestic work on women within patriarchal societies. This so-called 'new normal in everyday life also exposed women to increased levels of gender-based violence and the likelihood of contracting COVID-19 due to overcrowding.

This edited volume includes contributions from leading applied and clinical sociologists working and living in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, providing a global overview of the impact of the pandemic on women. Each chapter adopts an applied and clinical sociological approach in analyzing gendered vulnerabilities. The volume innovatively uses personal accounts, including narratives, interviews, autoethnographies, and focus group discussions, to explore women's lived experiences during the pandemic.

This edited collection will greatly interest students, academics, and researchers in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in gender and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Weight: 790g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032211756