Gender and Women
Issues:
Women’s Response,
Resistance and Resilience During and Post Covid-19 Pandemic
When the first outbreak of
Corona-19 in Wuhan, China, no one would ever imagine what it would do to our
life. Now the outbreak has impacted the whole world. It creates a crisis in
many aspects of life: economy, politics, social and cultural views, travel, and
especially health, locally and globally. The coronavirus or Covid-19 virus has
left a deep impact on the way we perceive our world and our everyday lives.
This virus has left us with an imprint that we will carry on forever from now
on.
Most countries in the world
are also strongly hit by this pandemic. The introduction of the new normal is
not an easy thing. Many adjustments have to be made including our relations
with other people. Gender relation, especially in the domestic sphere is
affected greatly. The very reason is simply
economic although this is not exclusive. Domestic violence impacts not only on
physical scars but also psychological, social and
cultural problems for everyone: the husband (mostly the perpetrator), the wife,
and the children (mostly the victims), the community and the society in
general. Accordingly, this panel will discuss gender and women’s issues in the
time of the pandemic. It discusses how women (rural and urban) respond to the
pandemic that affects their life. Most women are victims of domestic violence
but many of them are not simply victimized, some of them resist and create
their own space away from violence. Resilience is also found common for women
in the pandemic time. In short, this special session will discuss how women
deal with issues affecting them before, during the pandemic and post covid-19
pandemic.
We invite you
to submit an abstract outlining your presentation for a session at The Rise of
Asia Conference 2022. Your abstract will be carefully reviewed and if selected,
you will be invited to make a presentation in one of the sessions at the
conference. All the abstracts are to be submitted online until December 31,
2021, at the following link:
Selected papers of presented in the panel may
be considered for publication as articles in the Journal of International Women’s
Studies: http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws
Organizers
Diah
Ariani Arimbi and Emy Susanti
Gender and Social
Inclusion Study Center
Universitas
Airlangga Surabaya, Indonesia