the routledge companion to gender and covid-19

The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19 is the first comprehensive research guide for researchers and students who seek to study and evaluate the complex relationship between gender and COVID-19.

This interdisciplinary collection touches on two major themes: first, how gender played a central role in shaping access to testing, treatment, and vaccines. Second, how the pandemic not only deepened existing gender inequalities, but also those along the lines of race, class, sexuality, disability, and immigration status.

Bringing together a diverse range of international scholars across a number of disciplinary perspectives, this intersectional and comparative focus on COVID explores topics including the pandemic’s impact on families, employment, childcare and elder care, human rights, as well as gender and political economy and leadership, public health law, disability rights, and abortion access.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19 is an essential volume for scholars and students of Law, Gender Studies, Sociology, Health, Economics, and Politics.

Aziza Ahmed is Professor of Law and N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health Law at the Boston University School of Law. 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.

Linda C. McClain is 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 (2023).