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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781783960408
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (303 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Death's Summer Coat : What the History of Death and Dying Can Tell Us About Life and Living
    DDC: 306.9
    Keywords: Death -- Social aspects -- Great Britain ; Death -- Social aspects ; Death in popular culture -- Great Britain ; Death in popular culture ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Death is the one subject we will all confront; it touches our families, our homes, our hearts. And yet we have grown used to denying its existence, treating it as an enemy to be beaten back with medical advances.What led us to this point what drove us to sanitize death and make it foreign and unfamiliar? In Death's Summer Coat Brandy Schillace explores our past to examine what it might mean for our future. From Victorian Britain to contemporary Cambodia, forgotten customs and modern-day rituals, we learn about the incredibly diverse and sometimes just incredible ways in which humans have
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction: Meet the New (Old) Death; Chapter 1: Dead and Knowing It; Chapter 2: Eat Your Dead (and Other Advice); Chapter 3: Through a Glass, Darkly; Chapter 4: Dying Victorian: Memento Mori, Hair Jewellery and Crape; Chapter 5: Death at the Anatomy Theatre; Chapter 6: Death and the Doctor; Chapter 7: Death Comes to Dinner; Epilogue: Beginning at the End; Notes; Index; Copyright
    Note: Description based upon print version of record
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781605989389 , 160598938X
    Language: English
    Pages: 266 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Edition: First Pegasus books hardcover edition
    Parallel Title: Reproduction of (manifestation) Schillace, Brandy Death's summer coat
    DDC: 306.9
    Keywords: Death Social aspects ; Death in popular culture ; Tod ; Sterben ; Vergänglichkeit ; Einstellung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: A doctor combines her profession along with her love of literature and history in a scholarly work that examines how humans have dealt with death and mortality throughout time and through changing cultures
    Abstract: Dead and knowing it -- Eat your dead (and other advice) -- Through a glass, darkly -- Dying Victorian: memento mori, hair jewellery and crape -- Death at the anatomy theatre -- Death and the doctor -- Death comes to dinner
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9780739192979
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (315 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Cabrera, Nolan L Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century : Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Women, White - Race identity ; Women, White - Race identity ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Composed after the election of the first black U.S. president, after the post-global financial crisis, more than a decade after 9/11, and concomitant with a rash of xenophobic incidents across the globe, Unveiling Whiteness distills key themes associated with a post-millennial global whiteness
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. AFFECTIVE WHITENESS -- Section Introduction. Feeling White -- Chapter One. The Emotions of White Racism and Antiracism -- Chapter Two. Stories of a White Apocalypse on the Romanian Internet -- Chapter Three. Swedish Whiteness and White Melancholia: A Diagnosis of a White Nation in Crisis -- Part Two. GOVERNING THROUGH WHITENESS -- Section Introduction. Piercing the Veil -- Chapter Four. Governing through Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Reconstituting Australian Culture and Cultural Diversity in the Howard Era, 1996-2007 -- Chapter Five. The Institutionalization of Whiteness in Contemporary Canadian Public Policy -- Chapter Six. Arizona 2010 -- Chapter Seven. "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House": Reading France's Recognition Politics through Fanon's Critique of Whiteness and Coloniality -- Part Three. DISRUPTING AND REIMAGINING WHITENESS -- Section Introduction. When Heaven and Earth Are Shaken to Their Foundations -- Chapter Eight. Troubling White Englishness in South Africa: A Self-Interrogation of Privilege, Complicity, Citizenship, and Belonging -- Chapter Nine. I Once Was Lost but Now I'm Found: Exploring the White Feminist Confessional -- Chapter Ten. Theorizing White Racial Trauma and its Remedies -- Index -- About the Contributors
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    ISBN: 9780739192979
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (315 pages)
    DDC: 305.8
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    Abstract: Composed after the election of the first black U.S. president, after the post-global financial crisis, more than a decade after 9/11, and concomitant with a rash of xenophobic incidents across the globe, Unveiling Whiteness distills key themes associated with a post-millennial global whiteness.
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