Abstract

Living with an Infected Planet: Covid-19, Feminism and the Global Frontline of Care by Elke Krasny and published in transcript's "x texts" series, is about the discourse used during the COVID-19 pandemic. The book questions what the response to the pandemic means in cultural, social, spiritual, affective, and emotional terms. The pandemic catastrophe was not articulated in a vocabulary of care but in the terminology of war (12). This leads to a fundamental question: Why were the histories and value systems of masculine patriarchy and militarized nationalism (12) used?

The structure of the book includes an introduction, three chapters, and a conclusion. The three chapters follow the words "war," "frontline," and "feminist recovery" as they relate to care, and the book provides a feminist cultural analysis of their meanings and possible implications. Krasny describes care as an inclusive concept that acknowledges the interdependency in social, ecological, infrastructural, epistemic, and emotional registers. She develops an epistemic intervention—feminist worry and feminist hope as analytics that are derived from viewing care as knowledge