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Sekalala, Sharifah (2021) Categorising the gendered harms to caregivers during humanitarian emergencies : an analysis of law and practice during Ebola crises. Social and Legal Studies, 30 (6). pp. 825-847. doi:10.1177/0964663920974433 ISSN 0964-6639.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663920974433
Abstract
Recent global health emergencies have highlighted the critical role of health care workers in stemming the spread of pandemics. Healthcare workers provide an essential service to local communities impacted by epidemics such as Ebola. Global health scholars suggest that carers may suffer harm while performing this essential work. Building on feminist theories of ‘harm’ and ‘social reproduction’, this article uses as case studies the early 21st century Ebola epidemics that broke out in West Africa and the DRC to ask how do women carers in humanitarian crises experience harm? The article illustrates the hierarchical and gendered nature of harm, and how those at the bottom of social hierarchies face intersectional harms stemming from their race, class and economic status. The article highlights an urgent need to rethink how law at both the domestic and international levels has contributed to the reproduction of inequalities faced by these carers.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Medical personnel, Public health personnel, COVID-19 (Disease), Epidemics -- Social aspects, Ebola virus disease -- Africa, West, Humanitarian assistance, International law, Feminist jurisprudence | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Social and Legal Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0964-6639 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 December 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 30 | ||||||||
Number: | 6 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 825-847 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0964663920974433 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
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Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 December 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 December 2020 | ||||||||
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