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This book examines disease in the context of gender discrimination. It highlights and explores how socio-economic, political, cultural, and gender dimensions play a crucial role in understanding and defining disease. Through two broad categories – non-literary and literary – the volume discusses concerns such as media representation of gender, racial violence, domestic violence, and healthcare discrimination during Covid-19 pandemic, and focuses on the literary representation of gender discrimination related to diseases within and beyond South Asia. The chapters are based on fieldwork, demographic investigations, and statistics that offer a clear and comprehensive insight into the problems. This book will be beneficial to students and researchers of gender studies, pandemic studies, literature, anthropology, social sciences, and disease humanities.

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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.

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