Cancer and the Kali Yuga : gender, inequality, and health in South India /
Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale.
Cancer and the Kali Yuga : gender, inequality, and health in South India / Cecilia Coale Van Hollen. - Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2020. - xix, 282p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
History and hospitals -- Poverty and chemicals -- Women and work -- Screening and morality -- Disclosure and care -- Biomedicine and bodies -- Sorcery and religion.
"As news spread that more women died from breast and cervical cancer in India than anywhere else in the world in the early twenty-first century, global public health planners accelerated efforts to prevent, screen, and treat these reproductive cancers in low-income Indian communities. *Cancer and the Kali Yuga* reveals that women who are the targets of these interventions in Tamil Nadu, South India, hold views about cancer causality, late diagnosis, and challenges to accessing treatment that differ from the public health discourse. Cecilia Coale Van Hollen's critical feminist ethnography centers and amplifies the voices of Dalit Tamil women who situate cancer within the nexus of their class, caste, and gender positions. Dalit women's narratives about their experiences with cancer present a powerful and poignant critique of the sociocultural and political-economic conditions that marginalize them and jeopardize their health and well-being in twenty-first-century India"--
9789354423369 (Pbk)
2022004664
Dalit women--Health and hygiene--India--Tamil Nadu--21st century.
Dalit women--Cancer--Treatment--India--Tamil Nadu--21st century.
Equality--India--Tamil Nadu--21st century.
Public health--India--Tamil Nadu--21st century.
Dalit women--Social conditions--India--Tamil Nadu--21st century.
Dalit women--Economic conditions--India--Tamil Nadu--21st century.
HQ1744.T3 / V36 2022
305.5688095 V31C
Cancer and the Kali Yuga : gender, inequality, and health in South India / Cecilia Coale Van Hollen. - Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2020. - xix, 282p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
History and hospitals -- Poverty and chemicals -- Women and work -- Screening and morality -- Disclosure and care -- Biomedicine and bodies -- Sorcery and religion.
"As news spread that more women died from breast and cervical cancer in India than anywhere else in the world in the early twenty-first century, global public health planners accelerated efforts to prevent, screen, and treat these reproductive cancers in low-income Indian communities. *Cancer and the Kali Yuga* reveals that women who are the targets of these interventions in Tamil Nadu, South India, hold views about cancer causality, late diagnosis, and challenges to accessing treatment that differ from the public health discourse. Cecilia Coale Van Hollen's critical feminist ethnography centers and amplifies the voices of Dalit Tamil women who situate cancer within the nexus of their class, caste, and gender positions. Dalit women's narratives about their experiences with cancer present a powerful and poignant critique of the sociocultural and political-economic conditions that marginalize them and jeopardize their health and well-being in twenty-first-century India"--
9789354423369 (Pbk)
2022004664
Dalit women--Health and hygiene--India--Tamil Nadu--21st century.
Dalit women--Cancer--Treatment--India--Tamil Nadu--21st century.
Equality--India--Tamil Nadu--21st century.
Public health--India--Tamil Nadu--21st century.
Dalit women--Social conditions--India--Tamil Nadu--21st century.
Dalit women--Economic conditions--India--Tamil Nadu--21st century.
HQ1744.T3 / V36 2022
305.5688095 V31C