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OverviewExamining 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Maureen Daly Goggin , Beth Fowkes TobinPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.997kg ISBN: 9781409444169ISBN 10: 1409444163 Pages: 406 Publication Date: 08 November 2013 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsWomen 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. As such, this book offers a vital contribution to the fields of gender and material culture studies as well as to the history of death. More than that, in an age in which the business of dying has been thoroughly commercialized, its analysis of the lives of women of the past offers us new ways of imagining our responses to death in the future.'-Jennie Batchelor, University of Kent, UK Author InformationMaureen Daly Goggin is Professor and Chair in the Department of English, Arizona State University, USA. Beth Fowkes Tobin is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Georgia, USA. Beth Fowkes Tobin , Maureen Daly Goggin, Isabella Campagnol, Arianne Fennetaux, Elizabeth C. Macknight, Laura Patterson, Gillian D. Steinberg, Meredith Eliassen, Elizabethada A. Wright, Ashley Byock, Marjan Sterckx, Maura Coughlin, Michelle J. Pinkard, Kathryn Beattie, Michelle Iwen, B.A. Harrington, Violet A. Dutcher, Beth Kowaleski Wallace, Richard Fraser. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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