ISBN:
9781351536806
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (407 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Tobin, BethFowkes Women and the Material Culture of Death
DDC:
306.9082
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Connecting Women and Death: An Introduction -- PART I: MOURNING PRACTICES -- 1 Widows and Courtesans, "Pizzocchere" and Nuns: Women in Mourning in the Venetian Republic, 1400-1800 -- 2 Fashioning Death/Gendering Sentiment: Mourning Jewelry in Britain in the Eighteenth Century -- The Changing Practices of Mourning -- From Memento Mori to Memento Moveri -- The Female Mourner: The Gendering of Mourning and the Sentimental Body -- 3 Emotions and Rituals: Responses to Death among the Nobility in Modern France -- 4 Stitching (in) Death: Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century American and English Mourning Samplers -- Death and Postmortem Practices -- Plain-Stitch Mourning Samplers -- Fancywork Mourning Samplers -- Conclusion -- 5 "The Thing They Knew": Social Exclusion at Southern Wakes in Eudora Welty's "The Wanderers" and The Optimist's Daughter -- 6 "Confessional" Poetry and the Material Culture of Death -- Everyday Objects and Women's Grief -- Male "Confessional" Poets and Memorial -- The Body as Object -- The Poem as Object -- PART II: MEMORIALIZING -- 7 Columbia Mourns: The Distaff Side of Washington's Long Farewell -- Symbols of Birth and Death Chambers in Transition -- Feminine Symbols Exchanged During Mourning -- Women Segregated in Mourning Washington -- First Ladies Respond to the Civic Reinvention of George Washington -- A Feminine Consciousness of Inheritance -- 8 More than "A Heap of Dust": The Material Memorialization of Three Nineteenth-Century Women's Graves -- The Cemetery as Heterotopia -- Hannah Adams -- Louisa Wells -- Ona Judge Staines -- Implications of Cemeteries as Space/Place -- 9 Domesticating Death in the Sentimental Republic: Commemoration and Mourning in U.S. Civil War Nurses' Memoirs
Abstract:
10 "Une fleur que ses yeux éteints ne peuvent plus contempler": Women's Sculpture for the Dead -- Lifelike but Lifeless Wax Effigies and Animals -- Portraits and Pleurants for Cemeteries and Churches -- War Memorials with Mourning Women -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- 11 Spectacle, Maintenance and Materiality: Women and Death in Modern Brittany -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- 12 A Conversation with Aunt Carol: The Fluid Functionality of Funeral Programs in African-American Culture -- From Death to Birth: The Creation of the Program -- Communal Protest as a Grief Coping Mechanism -- Black Matriarchs as Record Keepers -- Potential for Future Study -- 13 From Private Places to Public Spaces: Mourning and Death in the Art of Four Twenty-First-Century Women -- Acknowledgements -- PART III: BODILY PRACTICES -- 14 Reading Material Culture: British Women's Position and the Death Trade in the Long Eighteenth Century -- The Death Trade -- Women Writers and the Artifacts of Death -- 15 Hadley Chests: A Reflection on the Chaos and Sacrifice of Childbirth -- The Hadley Chests -- Domestic Order and Feminine Identity -- A Closer Look -- Conclusion -- 16 "Feel How Soft Her Hair Is": Amish Women's Practices on the Female Body -- 17 Representing Corporeal "Truth" in the Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini and Madame Tussaud -- Coda -- 18 Women, Decorative Arts, and Taxidermy -- 19 Hic est locus ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae: Maude Abbott and the Malformed Heart -- Bibliography -- Index
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