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Women and the Material Culture of Death is a book that is at once ambitious, compelling and poignant. The nineteen, cross-disciplinary, generously illustrated essays that comprise this collection reveal the hidden history of women's role in mourning the dead through a range of material practices from the early modern period to the present. As such, this book offers a vital contribution to the fields of gender and material culture studies as well as to the history of death. More than that, in an age in which the business of dying has been thoroughly commercialized, its analysis of the lives of women of the past offers us new ways of imagining our responses to death in the future.'-Jennie Batchelor, University of Kent, UK

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Maureen Daly Goggin is Professor and Chair in the Department of English, Arizona State University, USA. Beth Fowkes Tobin is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Georgia, USA. Beth Fowkes Tobin , Maureen Daly Goggin, Isabella Campagnol, Arianne Fennetaux, Elizabeth C. Macknight, Laura Patterson, Gillian D. Steinberg, Meredith Eliassen, Elizabethada A. Wright, Ashley Byock, Marjan Sterckx, Maura Coughlin, Michelle J. Pinkard, Kathryn Beattie, Michelle Iwen, B.A. Harrington, Violet A. Dutcher, Beth Kowaleski Wallace, Richard Fraser.

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