TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Hollen,Cecilia Coale
TI  - Cancer and the Kali Yuga: gender, inequality, and health in South India 
SN  - 9789354423369 (Pbk)
AV  - HQ1744.T3 V36 2022
U1  - 305.5688095 V31C 23/eng/20220217
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Hyderabad
PB  - Orient Blackswan
KW  - Dalit women
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - India
KW  - Tamil Nadu
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Treatment
KW  - Equality
KW  - Public health
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -