ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19 is the first comprehensive research guide for researchers and students who seek to study and evaluate the complex relationship between gender and COVID-19.

This interdisciplinary collection touches on two major themes: first, how gender played a central role in shaping access to testing, treatment, and vaccines. Second, how the pandemic not only deepened existing gender inequalities, but also those along the lines of race, class, sexuality, disability, and immigration status.

Bringing together a diverse range of international scholars across a number of disciplinary perspectives, this intersectional and comparative focus on COVID explores topics including the pandemic’s impact on families, employment, childcare and elder care, human rights, as well as gender and political economy and leadership, public health law, disability rights, and abortion access.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19 is an essential volume for scholars and students of Law, Gender Studies, Sociology, Health, Economics, and Politics.

part I|49 pages

Training a Gender Lens on the COVID-19 Pandemic

chapter 1|13 pages

Introduction

Researching Gender and COVID-19

chapter 2|12 pages

Law as a Determinant of Health

COVID-19 and Gender

chapter 3|10 pages

Health Justice

Feminism, Universalism, and Vulnerability in Pandemic Response

chapter 4|12 pages

We Are Not in This Together

Toward a Feminist Public Finance

part II|76 pages

Families and Communities

chapter 5|12 pages

Gender, COVID, and Care

chapter 9|12 pages

Lessons from Pandemic Co-parenting

Toward Family Mediation that Centers Low-Income, Never-Married Black Mothers

chapter 10|13 pages

Queer Inequality

The COVID-19 Spotlight

part III|98 pages

Economy, Labor, and Social Reproduction

chapter 11|11 pages

Care and Economic Crisis

chapter 12|10 pages

COVID-19 and Vulnerable Groups

Experiences of Sexual Minorities in Barbados

chapter 14|15 pages

The Resilience of Gender Equality

How COVID-19 Was Gendered in Norway

chapter 15|13 pages

Manufacturing Crisis, Exacerbating Vulnerabilities

A Feminist Perspective on Crisis, Calamity, and the Political Economy of Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

chapter 16|12 pages

COVID-19 She-Cession

The Employment Penalty of Childcare

chapter 17|11 pages

After the “Shecession”

Post-Pandemic Law and Policy for Working Mothers

part V|87 pages

Reproductive Health

chapter 30|13 pages

Access to Abortion During COVID-19 in India

Gaps and Challenges

part VI|66 pages

Politics and Political Leadership

chapter 31|11 pages

Sharing Is Caring

Women of Color California State Legislators Take to Facebook During COVID-19 Lockdowns as a Form of Constituent Services

chapter 33|15 pages

Leadership in the Lands Down Under?

A Comparative Print Media Analysis of the Morrison and Ardern Government COVID-19 Responses