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Lifting the Taboo - Women, Death and Dying (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,728
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Lifting the Taboo - Women, Death and Dying (Hardcover): Sally Cline

Lifting the Taboo - Women, Death and Dying (Hardcover)

Sally Cline

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lluminated by a profound yet humorous vision, Lifting the Taboo explores the specific relationship women of many colors, cultures, ages, and sexual orientations have to their own deaths, their attitudes towards loss, and their disposition to their role as primary care-givers to the dying.

Specifically, the book weighs the implications of breast cancer and examines in detail Alzheimer's Disease which, contrary to popular myth, can in several significant ways be perceived as a women's disease. Investigating mothers' responses to children's deaths, Sally Cline establishes that women's relationships to death are intricately connected to the experience of giving birth. They are, she argues, therefore psychologically and emotionally different from those of men. Cline goes on to examine women's roles and responses to AIDS and suicide, women's sexual relationships while dying, how society views widows as leftover lives, and women's radical work in hospices and death therapy, as well as their roles as female funeral directors.

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Imprint: New York University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 1997
First published: March 1997
Authors: Sally Cline
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-1366-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Death & dying > General
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LSN: 0-8147-1366-1
Barcode: 9780814713662

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