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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