Sugar and TensionWomen 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 womens 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 womens domestic care of others may be at odds with the self care mandates of biomedically