What to read after Sugar and Tension?

"Sugar and Tension is about a group of women with type 2 diabetes who live in India's capital, New Delhi. Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease resulting from a low level of insulin, a hormone excreted by the pancreas that regulates blood sugar. It is a highly complex disease to manage, requiring intensive and sustained self-care. However, many Indian women are trained from an early age to prioritize the needs of others above those of themselves, including their parents, their in-laws, their children, and their spouses. What happens when women in that situation get diabetes? Whose wellbeing is prioritized then? Questions about how women in North India negotiate self- and other-care are especially timely, given current public debates around women's changing economic and social positions in the country, and particularly about their rights and roles in public spaces. Lesley Jo Weaver worked with a large sample of women to interrogate these factors, along with finding out how they obtain medical help, the medicine they need, and the social and emotional support that would make their lives easier. Most of these women believed other-care activities to be of the utmost importance even if they were not able to fulfill them, and they went to great lengths to uphold them to whatever extent they were able. Engagingly written, this book will be an important contribution to the study of this chronic disease"--