TY  - BOOK
AU  - Håland,Evy Johanne
ED  - Cambridge University Press.
TI  - Women, pain and death: rituals and everyday life on the margins of Europe and beyond 
SN  - 9781847188700
AV  - HQ1587 .W674 2008
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - Newcastle
PB  - Cambridge Scholars
KW  - Women
KW  - Europe
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Asia
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Women and death
N1  - 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
ER  -