Normal görünüm MARC görünümü ISBD görünümü

Women, pain and death : rituals and everyday life on the margins of Europe and beyond / edited by Evy Johanne Håland. - viii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Death and the maiden : sex, death, and women's laments --Greek women and death, ancient and modern : a comparative analysis --"Let the earth be light upon you" : remembering the dead in a meadow Mari village --Symbols of approaching death : the role of the woman --Symbolic and social roles of women in death ritual in traditional Irish society --Women and death in old Norse societies : an archaeological perspective --Between reverence and fear : Jewish women and death in medieval and early modern Ashkenaz --Brittle images, lingering pasts : photographs, memories and bereavement --Metaphors kill, don't they? Breast cancer and fear of death in Slovene medical metaphors / Gail Holst-Warhaft / Evy Johanne Håland / Helena Ruotsala / Tatiana Minniyakhmetova / Jenny Butler / Liv Helga Dommasnes / Alexandra Cuffel / Nefissa Naguib / Mojca Ramšak

ISBN: 9781847188700 1847188702

LCCN: 2009286321

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women--Social conditions.--Europe
Women--Social conditions.--Asia
Women--Social conditions.--Middle East
Women and death.

LC Class. No.: HQ1587 / .W674 2008

Dewey Class. No.: