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"""Arundhati Roy famously urged us to use the pandemic as a portal to a more just future. This powerful collection reveals the gendered paradoxes of COVID—from intersectional, comparative, and interdisciplinary perspectives— uncovering alarming insights and offering thoughtful solutions that call for a new ethics, politics, and law of care, community, and connection, even while our pandemics of inequality, poverty, and disinformation continue to rage."" Catherine Powell, Eunice Carter Distinguished Research Scholar Professor of Law, Fordham Law School In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, out of “all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman.” Those words were prescient and surfaced powerfully during the triple pandemics of COVID-19, systemic racism, and sexism – with both the “color and gender of COVID-19” on vivid display. This essential volume allows us to understand the intersectional way that gendered and raced effects operate using the “pandemic as a portal” to expose how COVID-19 exacerbates preexisting disparities and amplifies their disparate impact. This insightful book helps us to consider more fully how to rectify health inequities. Matianga Sirleaf, Nathan Patz Professor of Law, University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law"

"""Arundathi Roy famously urged us to use the pandemic as a portal to a more just future. This powerful collection reveals the gendered paradoxes of COVID-- from intersectional, comparative, and interdisciplinary perspectives -- uncovering alarming insights and offering thoughtful solutions that call for a new ethics, politics, and law of care, community, and connection, even while our pandemics of inequality, poverty, and disinformation continue to rage."" Catherine Powell, Eunice Carter Distinguished Research Scholar Professor of Law, Fordham Law School"

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Linda C. McClain is the Robert Kent Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law and co-director of the BU Program in Reproductive Justice. Her areas of interest include family law, gender and law, feminist legal theory, civil rights, and law and literature. Among her books are Who’s the Bigot? Learning from Conflicts Over Marriage and Civil Rights Law (2020), Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues (2013) with James E. Fleming, The Place of Families: Fostering Capacity, Equality, and Responsibility (2006), and the co-authored Contemporary Family Law (6th ed. 2023). Aziza Ahmed is Professor of Law and N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health Law at the Boston University School of Law and co-director of the BU Program on Reproductive Justice. Her work focuses on the interactions between law, science, and politics with a focus on gender and health. She is the author of the forthcoming book Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS. Professor Ahmed is on the board of Our Bodies, Our Selves and the advisory board of the Lawyering Project. She has previously served on the board of the ACLU of Massachusetts.

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