Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Health Justice: Feminism, Universalism, and Vulnerability in Pandemic Response
ORCID (Links to author’s additional scholarship at ORCID.org)
Lindsay F. Wiley: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7918-329X
Seema Mohapatra: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8125-5803
Abstract
This chapter highlights the influence of relational feminist philosophies, feminist legal theories, and critical race feminism on the development of health justice as a conceptual framework for explaining and guiding progressive governmental intervention to eliminate unjust health disparities. It argues that health justice provides a conceptual framework for reconciling the tension in pandemic response between universal interventions that support all people equally and interventions that prioritize the needs of people who are particularly vulnerable—including women, people of color, and people living in low-income households and communities. Universal interventions grounded in a conception of shared vulnerability and community empowerment are anti-subordinationist.
Publication Title
The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19
Document Type
Book Chapter
Keywords
health law, COVID-19, health justice, feminist legal theories, equality
Recommended Citation
Lindsay F. Wiley & Seema Mohapatra, Health Justice: Feminism, Universalism, and Vulnerability in Pandemic Response 28, in The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19 (Linda C. McClain & Aziza Ahmed eds., 2024)
