Women, pain and death : rituals and everyday life on the margins of Europe and beyond / edited by Evy Johanne Håland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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