Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19

Melanie Heath is Associate Professor of Sociology at McMaster University. President, Research Committee on Women, Gender, and Society, International Sociological Association.Akosua K. Darkwah is Associate Professor of Sociology and current chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Ghana. Managing editor, Ghana Journal of Sociology and Anthropology.Josephine Beoku-Betts is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Sociology at Florida Atlantic University. Past President, Sociologists for Women in Society.Bandana Purkayastha is Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. Executive Committee Member, International Sociological Association.

• IntroductionDisplacements, Disruptions and Distress: An Introduction to Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19Part I: DisruptionsIntroductionDisruptions: Seismic Work and Life Shifts1. The Pandemic and Our Entangled Lives: Experiencing the Many Relations of Ruling2. The Inequality the Pandemic Unveils: Teaching and Learning in the Times of COVID 3. Disruption and Silence: Making Sense of Troubled Times Through Autoethnographic Writing4. "Network Problems": An Autoethnographic Reflection of the Challenges of Undergraduate Education in Ghana in the Midst of a Global Pandemic5. Navigating Empowerment and Activism in the Ivory Tower: A Co-autoethnography Gives Voice to Feminist Identity in a Criminal Justice Program6. Writing on Self, Together: Collective Autoethnography as Praxis of Solidarity and Collective Care during the Pandemic7. Labor Transformations in the Academy under COVID-19 Through the Lens of Intersectional Feminism: A Canadian DuoethnographyPart II: DistressIntroductionDistress: Personal Trauma and Institutionalized Inequalities8. Valuing a Feminist Ethics of Care in Pandemic Times9. A Clinical Account of Breast Cancer Amid COVID-1910. Gendered Life Transitions and the Blurring of Work-Family Boundaries during COVID-19 11. Trying My Best to Be My Badass Self: Parenting, Homeschooling, and Leading a Professional Feminist Academic Organization Amid a Pandemic12. Invoking Abuelita Epistemologies for Academic Transformation in the Coronavirus Age: Autoethnographic Reflections from a Motherscholar Collective 13. An Autoethnography from a Student and Underpaid Employee14. Black Women, Work, and COVID-19: Reflections on Navigating Graduate School, Work, Motherhood and Relationships During the COVID-19 Pandemic15. On the Margins of Hyperinvisibility and Hypervisibility: The Paradox of Being an Asian American During the COVID-19 PandemicPart III: DisplacementsIntroductionDisplacements: Transnational Realities and Splintered Lives16. One Virus, Two Worlds: A Taiwanese Queer Stranger’s "World"-Traveling and Loving in the COVID U.S.17. Transnational Families, Welfare States, and Marriage Rules in the Time of COVID-1918. COVID-19: Lived Realities, Reflections, and Analysis19. Knitting an Autoethnography20. Disorientation, Disbelief, Distance21. "Salaam, Hamvatan-e Aziz": Solidarity in the Time of Corona22. (At) Home in CrisisConclusion: Reflections on the Pandemic from a Southern Feminist ScholarPostscript: The Pandemic World in 2021