Disease and Discrimination

Sourav Kumar Nag is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Culture Studies at Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya under Bankura University, India. He has contributed significantly to the field of critical studies, translation, and creative writing. He has published his articles in sundry national and international journals of repute.

Introduction Section 1: Gender Discrimination, Diseases, and Covid-19 1. Cataclysmic Impact of the Pandemic on Women: COVID-19 and Gender Discrimination 2. Stigma of Illness: Queer Sickness during the Covid-19 Pandemic 3. Racial Inequity in COVID: Health Disparities and Violence towards Women of Colour 4. Abortion Access in Canada and the Impacts of Covid-19 5. The (In)Visibility of Global Gender Inequality: Examining U.S. News Coverage on Women’s Experiences of Violence During COVID-19 6. EmpowHERed’ Health: Reforming a Dismissive Health care System Section 2: Gender Discrimination in the Literary Narratives A. Narratives of Illness in Literature from South Asia 7. Disease, Treatment, and Discrimination: Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Treatment of Bibi Haldar” 8. Humayun Ahmed’s In Blissful Hell: A Study of Counter-hegemonic Cultural Practice from the Perspectives of Gender and Sexuality 9. Rabindranath Tagore’s Approach to Gender Discrimination and Disease in Select Short Stories B. Narratives of Illness Beyond South Asia 10. “Mental” Illness: Subjectivity in Shahd Alshammari’s Notes on the Flesh and Lauren Slater’s Lying 11. Women’s Abandonment and Illness in African Literature 12. Psychological Concerns or Protest: Unveiling the Mystery in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” 13. “Every disease had a story with a beginning, middle, and end”: Interrogating Anorexia Nervosa in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder