Author: Clare BielbyPublisher: Camden House
ISBN: 1571134395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions.
Women and Death 3
Author: Clare BielbyPublisher: Camden House
ISBN: 1571134395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions.
Women and Death in Film, Television, and News
Author: Joanne Clarke DillmanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137452285
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2000s. In this book, Clarke Dillman explains the contextual environment from which these images have arisen, how the images relate to (and sometimes contradict) the narratives they help to constitute, and the cultural work that dead women perform in visual texts.
Women and the Material Culture of Death
Author: Maureen Daly GogginPublisher: PHP研究所
ISBN: 9781409444169
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Women and the Material Culture of Death is a book that is at once ambitious, compelling and poignant. The nineteen, cross-disciplinary, generously illustrated essays that comprise this collection reveal the hidden history of women's role in mourning the dead through a range of material practices from the early modern period to the present."--Publisher's description.
Women and the Material Culture of Death
Author: BethFowkes TobinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351536796
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Examining the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death, this collection focuses on the objects women make, the images they keep, the practices they use or are responsible for, and the places they inhabit and construct through ritual and custom. Women?s material practices, ranging from wearing mourning jewelry to dressing the dead, stitching memorial samplers to constructing skull boxes, collecting funeral programs to collecting and studying diseased hearts, making and collecting taxidermies, and making sculptures honoring the death, are explored in this collection as well as women?s affective responses and sentimental labor that mark their expected and unexpected participation in the social practices surrounding death and the dead. The largely invisible work involved in commemorating and constructing narratives and memorials about the dead-from family members and friends to national figures-calls attention to the role women as memory keepers for families, local communities, and the nation. Women have tended to work collaboratively, making, collecting, and sharing objects that conveyed sentiments about the deceased, whether human or animal, as well as the identity of mourners. Death is about loss, and many of the mourning practices that women have traditionally and are currently engaged in are about dealing with private grief and public loss as well as working to mitigate the more general anxiety that death engenders about the impermanence of life.
Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998
Author: Kathleen A. O'SheaPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Studies criminal cases from throughout the twentieth century in which women have been given the death penalty.
Wine, Women, & Death
Author: Raymond P. ScheindlinPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195129873
Category : Hebrew poetry, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Jewish poets of medieval Spain combined elements of the dominant Arabic-Islamic culture with Jewish religious and literary traditions to create a rich new Hebrew literature that is as richly entertaining today as it was in the twelfth century. In this delight delightful book, Scheindlin presents the original Hebrew poetry with his own melodic English translations, each followed by commentary that explains its cultural context.
Death Becomes Her
Author: Elizabeth DillPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443810746
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Dead and dying women are surely an age-old narrative trope. While associations of femininity with death have become almost prototypical in literary criticism and are familiar fodder for cultural conversations, the editors of Death Becomes Her offer us an opportunity to investigate the values that underlie such associations. But from where does our tireless investment in what constitutes a feminine death, a feminine reaction to death, and death’s courting of women emerge? These essays give voice to the idea that power and victimization are not opposites, but rather are complements in an operatic fantasy of intrigue, agency, absence and presence that pervades American writing and experience. Each chapter of Death Becomes Her offers a different lens to investigate the nature of death as surely more than just an anatomical matter: The penny press obsessively covers the death of a beautiful prostitute in 1840s Chicago; a novel of seduction becomes also a narrative of autopsy; a story of haunting allows women outlets for sexual license and the polemics of desire. Overall this volume invites readers to explore the ways in which death is portrayed as both an ornamentation of femininity and an ontological reality of it: how, put simply, “death becomes her.” Essays include analyses of women’s deathbed scenes, suicides, murders, funerals, and autopsies in literature and other nineteenth-century media. As such, the chapters in Death Becomes Her show how the authorial and readerly interest in scripting and staging women’s deaths is both intricate and abiding. They tell us that death is never, of course, simply about death, and they make relevant other issues, from linguistics to politics, as they inform the literature and lives of women from the late-eighteenth to early twentieth-century America. Taken together, the pieces in Death Becomes Her allow us greater access to the surrounding culture out of which the American woman emerges, performs, lives and dies. In doing so, they offer fresh insight into the often unsettling and highly relevant role of death in feminism.
Death and the Regeneration of Life
Author: Maurice BlochPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316582299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the symbolism surrounding death, an outline of which is provided in an important introduction by the editors. The major concern of the volume is the way in which funerary rituals dramatically transform the image of life as a dialectic flux involving exchange and transaction, marriage and procreation, into an image of a still, transcendental order in which oppositions such as those between self and other, wife-giver and wife-taker, Brahmin and untouchable, birth and therefore death have been abolished. This transformation often involves a general devaluation of biology, and, particularly, of sexuality, which is contrasted with a more spiritual and controlled source of life. The role of women, who are frequently associated with biological processes, mourning and death pollution, is often predominant in funerary rituals, and in examining this book makes a further contribution to the understanding of the symbolism of gender. The death rituals and the symbolism of rebirth are also analysed in the context of the political processes of the different societies considered, and it is argued that social order and political organisation may be legitimated through an exploitation of the emotions and biology.
Death and the Early Modern Englishwoman
Author: Lucinda M. BeckerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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Secrets of Life and Death
Author: Renate SiebertPublisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859840238
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This volume focuses on women whose lives are entangled in the workings of the Mafia, drawing on courtroom testimonies, interviews, contemporary journalism and recent research. Individual narratives illuminate women's experiences, both as victims or active opponents.