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Title:
Women and the material culture of death /
edited by Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin.
Publisher:
Ashgate,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xxii, 384 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Death--Social aspects.
Memorialization.
Women and death.
Other Authors:
Goggin, Maureen Daly, editor of compilation.
Tobin, Beth Fowkes, editor of compilation.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Connecting women and death : an introduction / Beth Fowkes Tobin and Maureen Daly Goggin -- Mourning practices. Widows and courtesans, "Pizzocchere" and nuns : women in mourning in the Venetian Republic, 1400-1800 / Isabella Campagnol ; Fashioning death, gendering sentiment : mourning jewelry in Britain in the eighteenth century / Arianne Fennetaux ; Emotions and rituals : responses to death among the nobility in modern France / Elizabeth C. Macknight ; Stitching (in) death : eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American and English mourning samplers / Maureen Daly Goggin -- "The thing they knew" : social exclusion at Southern wakes in Eudora Welty's "The wanderers" and The optimist's daughter / Laura Patterson ; "Confessional" poetry and the material culture of death / Gillian D. Steinberg --
Memorializing. Columbia mourns : the distaff side of Washington's long farewell / Meredith Eliassen ; More than "a heap of dust" : the material memorialization of three nineteenth-century women's graves / Elizabethada A. Wright ; Domesticating death in the sentimental republic : commemoration and mourning in U.S. Civil War nurses' memoirs / Ashley Byock ; "Une fleur que ses yeux ©♭tients ne peuvent plus contempler" : women's sculpture for the dead / Marjan Sterckx ; Spectacle, maintenance and materiality : women and death in modern Brittany / Maura Coughlin ; A conversation with Aunt Carol : the fluid functionality of funeral programs in African-American culture / Michelle J. Pinkard ; From private places to public spaces : mourning and death in the art of four twenty-first-century women / Kathryn Beattie --
Bodily practices. Reading material culture : British women's position and the death trade in the long eighteenth century / Michelle Iwen ; Hadley chests : a reflection on the chaos and sacrifice of childbirth / B. A. Harrington ; "Feel how soft her hair is" : Amish women's practices on the female body / Violet A. Dutcher ; Representing corporeal "truth" in the work of Anna Morandi Manzolini and Madame Tussaud / Beth Kowaleski Wallace ; Women, decorative arts, and taxidermy / Beth Fowkes Tobin ; Hic est locus ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae : Maude Abbott and the malformed heart / Richard Fraser.
ISBN:
1409444163 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781409444169 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)821560786
LCCN:
2012049680
Locations:
USUX851 --
Iowa State University - Parks Library
(Ames)
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