It takes the average reader 3 hours and 55 minutes to read Sugar and Tension by Lesley Jo Weaver
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Women in North India are socialized to care for others, so what do they do when they get a disease like diabetes that requires intensive self-care? In Sugar and Tension, Lesley Jo Weaver uses women’s experiences with diabetes in New Delhi as a lens to explore how gendered roles and expectations are taking shape in contemporary India. Weaver argues that although women’s domestic care of others may be at odds with the self-care mandates of biomedically-managed diabetes, these roles nevertheless do important cultural work that may buffer women’s mental and physical health by fostering social...
Sugar and Tension by Lesley Jo Weaver is 233 pages long, and a total of 58,949 words.
This makes it 79% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 22 minutes to read Sugar and Tension aloud.
Sugar and Tension is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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