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Life After Death
Author | : Karen Bloom Gevirtz |
Publsiher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0874139236 |
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Life After Death shows how representations of the widow in theeighteenth-century novel express attitudes toward emerging capitalismand women's participation in it. Authors responded to the century'sinstability by using widows, who had the right to act economically andself-interestedly, to teach women that virtue meant foregoing theopportunities that the changing economy offered. Novelists thus helpedto create expectations for women that linger today, and established thenovel as a cultural arbiter. The first study of widows in the developingnovel, Life After Death also takes the next step in merging genre, gender, and economic criticism
Daughters Wives and Widows After the Black Death
Author | : Mavis E. Mate |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0851155340 |
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Did the expanding economic life of England after the Black Death improve the lot of women, as is commonly thought? This study argues not. It has long been thought that the post Black Death period offered unparallelled opportunities for women. However, through a careful consideration of economic and legal changes affecting women of all social classes and conditions, the author shows that this was not the case, taking issue with orthodox opinion. She argues that marriage at a late age was not customary for women, and that the ability of wives to supplement their income with intermittent paid labour (at harvest time, for example) was not so great as has been supposed: rather, most married women spent more time on unpaid agricultural labour on their own land than their peers had done in the pre-plague economy. ProfessorMate also demonstrates that there is little evidence to support the current belief that widowhood was the period in a woman's life when she enjoyed most power, freedom, and independence; moreover, legal changes were a mixed blessing for women, leaving some widows with a larger portion and a more secure title to land, but totally depriving others. Throughout, the book pays much attention to class as well as gender, showing how many things were determined byit, from what a woman wore or ate to the age at which she married, her power within the household, and even her vulnerability to rape. The late MAVIS E. MATE was Professor of History Emerita, University of Oregon.
A Widow s Story
Author | : Joyce Carol Oates |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780007388165 |
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My husband died, my life collapsed.
Upon My Husband s Death
Author | : Louise Mirrer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literature, Medieval |
ISBN | : UVA:X002111374 |
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An exploration of widowhood in medieval Europe
A Widow s Story
Author | : Joyce Carol Oates |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2011-02-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780062082633 |
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Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow’s Story is the universally acclaimed author’s poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty-six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, Oates, whose novels (Blonde, The Gravedigger’s Daughter, Little Bird of Heaven, etc.) rank among the very finest in contemporary American fiction, offers an achingly personal story of love and loss. A Widow’s Story is a literary memoir on a par with The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and Calvin Trillin’s About Alice.
The Widow s Demise
Author | : Don Gutteridge |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Murder |
ISBN | : 1927789516 |
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The political elite attends a charity ball at the residence of Humphrey Cardiff. His widowed daughter, Delores, flirts with all the men, enraging their wives. Amidst the political plotting of Marc Edwards and his associates, Delores is found dead, with one of her suitors standing over the body. Marc controversially decides to defend him, while Cobb races to find the truth behind her untimely death
The Revival of Death
Author | : Tony Walter |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2002-01-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781134814633 |
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Talking about death is now fashionable, but how should we talk? Who should we listen to - priests, doctors, cousellors, or ourselves? Has psychology replaced religion in telling us how to die? This provocative book takes a sociological look at the revival of interest in death, focusing on the hospice movement and bereavement counselling. It will be required reading for anyone interested in the sociology of death and caring for the dying, the dead or bereaved.