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Identity, politics, and the pandemic: Why is COVID-19 a disaster for feminism(s)?

COVID-19 has been called “a disaster for feminism” (Lewis in The coronavirus is a disaster for feminism, 2020) for numerous reasons. In this short piece, we make sense of this claim, drawing on intersectional feminism(s) to understand why an analysis that considers gender alone is inadequate to addr...

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Autores principales: Berkhout, Suze G., Richardson, Lisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7552952/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33048278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00346-7
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description COVID-19 has been called “a disaster for feminism” (Lewis in The coronavirus is a disaster for feminism, 2020) for numerous reasons. In this short piece, we make sense of this claim, drawing on intersectional feminism(s) to understand why an analysis that considers gender alone is inadequate to address both the risks and consequences of COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-75529522020-10-14 Identity, politics, and the pandemic: Why is COVID-19 a disaster for feminism(s)? Berkhout, Suze G. Richardson, Lisa Hist Philos Life Sci Notes & Comments COVID-19 has been called “a disaster for feminism” (Lewis in The coronavirus is a disaster for feminism, 2020) for numerous reasons. In this short piece, we make sense of this claim, drawing on intersectional feminism(s) to understand why an analysis that considers gender alone is inadequate to address both the risks and consequences of COVID-19. Springer International Publishing 2020-10-13 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7552952/ /pubmed/33048278 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00346-7 Text en © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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