Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19

Melanie Heath is Associate Professor of Sociology at McMaster University. President, Research Committee on Women, Gender, and Society, International Sociological Association. Akosua K. Darkwah is Associate Professor of Sociology and current chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Ghana. Managing editor, Ghana Journal of Sociology and Anthropology. Josephine Beoku-Betts is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Sociology at Florida Atlantic University. Past President, Sociologists for Women in Society. Bandana Purkayastha is Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. Executive Committee Member, International Sociological Association.

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Displacements, Disruptions and Distress: An Introduction to Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19

Part I: Disruptions

Introduction

Disruptions: Seismic Work and Life Shifts

1. The Pandemic and Our Entangled Lives: Experiencing the Many Relations of Ruling

2. The Inequality the Pandemic Unveils: Teaching and Learning in the Times of COVID

3. Disruption and Silence: Making Sense of Troubled Times Through Autoethnographic Writing

4. "Network Problems": An Autoethnographic Reflection of the Challenges of Undergraduate Education in Ghana in the Midst of a Global Pandemic

5. Navigating Empowerment and Activism in the Ivory Tower: A Co-autoethnography Gives Voice to Feminist Identity in a Criminal Justice Program

6. Writing on Self, Together: Collective Autoethnography as Praxis of Solidarity and Collective Care during the Pandemic

7. Labor Transformations in the Academy under COVID-19 Through the Lens of Intersectional Feminism: A Canadian Duoethnography

Part II: Distress

Introduction

Distress: Personal Trauma and Institutionalized Inequalities

8. Valuing a Feminist Ethics of Care in Pandemic Times

9. A Clinical Account of Breast Cancer Amid COVID-19

10. Gendered Life Transitions and the Blurring of Work-Family Boundaries during COVID-19

11. Trying My Best to Be My Badass Self: Parenting, Homeschooling, and Leading a Professional Feminist Academic Organization Amid a Pandemic

12. Invoking Abuelita Epistemologies for Academic Transformation in the Coronavirus Age: Autoethnographic Reflections from a Motherscholar Collective

13. An Autoethnography from a Student and Underpaid Employee

14. Black Women, Work, and COVID-19: Reflections on Navigating Graduate School, Work, Motherhood and Relationships During the COVID-19 Pandemic

15. On the Margins of Hyperinvisibility and Hypervisibility: The Paradox of Being an Asian American During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Part III: Displacements

Introduction

Displacements: Transnational Realities and Splintered Lives

16. One Virus, Two Worlds: A Taiwanese Queer Stranger’s "World"-Traveling and Loving in the COVID U.S.

17. Transnational Families, Welfare States, and Marriage Rules in the Time of COVID-19

18. COVID-19: Lived Realities, Reflections, and Analysis

19. Knitting an Autoethnography

20. Disorientation, Disbelief, Distance

21. "Salaam, Hamvatan-e Aziz": Solidarity in the Time of Corona

22. (At) Home in Crisis

Conclusion: Reflections on the Pandemic from a Southern Feminist Scholar

Postscript: The Pandemic World in 2021