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Widowhood from a Feminist Perspective

A query for resources about widowhood from a feminist perspective gave rise to
the following suggestions, with considerable attention to international
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:28:00 -0500
From: Deborah Rose-Milavec <rosemilavec AT FUSE.NET>
Subject: widowhood
Does anyone have suggestions for readings on widowhood from a feminist
perspective?  I am very interested in the experience of women in Asia,
Africa and Latin America, as well as, western perspectives.  Thanks.

Deborah Rose-Milavec
Catherine of Siena Virtual College
www.catherineofisena.net
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:42:22 -0500
From: Zoe Brigley Thompson <zoe.brigley AT GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: widowhood
Hi there, I found Linda Green's book on Mayan widows really fascinating!

Green, Linda, *Fear as a Way of Life: Mayan Widows in Rural Guatemala*, New
York; Columbia University Press, 1999.

Hope this helps!

Best,

Zoe

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Zod Brigley Thompson
zoe.brigley AT gmail.com
Website: www.zoebrigley.org/index.php
Academic Profile: http://northampton.academia.edu/zoebrigley
Blog: www.blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoebrigley
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:35:05 -0600
From: "Whitt, Nancy" <nmwhitt AT SAMFORD.EDU>
Subject: Re: widowhood
So Long a Letter by Miriama Ba (African)

Dr. Nancy Whitt
Professor of English
328 DivN
nmwhitt AT samford.edu
           
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:50:19 -0500
From: "Bauer-Maglin, Nan" <NBauer-Maglin AT GC.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Re: widowhood
There is an interesting short piece in my book CUT LOOSE: (Mostly) Older Women
Talk about the End of (Mostly) Long-term Relationships by Merle Froschl called
"Left Alone: Deserted by Death or Divorce."
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Dr. Nan Bauer-Maglin
Professor Emerita
The City University of New York
nbauer-maglin AT gc.cuny.edu
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:52:12 -0000
From: "Spary, Carole" <C.Spary AT WARWICK.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: widowhood
You could look at Martha Alter Chen's work on widowhood in India e.g.
'Perpetual Mourning: Widowhood in Rural India'.

Best wishes,

Carole

Dr Carole Spary
Department of Politics and International Studies
University of Warwick
United Kingdom
c.spary AT warwick.ac.uk
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:52:27 +0000
From: Roona RE Simpson <Roona.Simpson AT ED.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: widowhood
'Women on Their Own' (2008, eds. Bell and Yans), Rutgers University Press

Interdisciplinary collection, much on widowhood

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Roona Simpson
Associate Researcher
Centre for Research on Families and Relationships,
The University of Edinburgh,
23 Buccleuch Place,
Edinburgh,
EH8 9LN.
www.crfr.ac.uk
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:16:55 -0500
From: "Oboler, Regina" <roboler AT URSINUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: widowhood
Betty Potash edited a book, Widows in African Societies, that was
published by Stanford U. Press in the mid-eighties.

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:41:18 -0500
From: janet mcadams <janetmcadams AT GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: widowhood
Deepha Mehta's film WATER.

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http://www.janetmcadams.org
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:27:01 -0500
From: Daniel Moshenberg <dym AT GWU.EDU>
Subject: Re: widowhood
Hi,

Chinwe Azubuike has a note and poems on widowhood in Nigeria in the Concerned
Africa Scholars Bulletin #83: Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Africa:
http://concernedafricascholars.org/docs/Bulletin83.pdf.

Take care, Dan Moshenberg
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:16:40 -0800
From: Max Dashu <maxdashu AT LMI.NET>
Subject: Re: widowhood
Chima Jacob Korieh, "Widowhood Among the Igbo of Eastern Nigeria"
http://www.ub.uib.no/elpub/1996/h/506001/korieh/chima.html
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Max Dashu
Suppressed Histories Archives: Real women, global vision
http://www.suppressedhistories.net

Women's Power DVD
http://www.suppressedhistories.net/womenspowerdvd.html
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:21:31 -0500
From: Alice Goode-Elman <goodeea AT SUNYSUFFOLK.EDU>
Subject: Re: widowhood
I wrote a memoir, "What We Were Afraid Of,"  published in an issue of the Notre
Dame Review on grief/mornings, number 12. Summer 2001, edited by John Matthias
and William O'Rourke. I can e-mail a copy of my piece to you if you communicate
privately. e-mail: goodeea AT sunysuffolk.edu

Alice Goode-Elman, Ph.D
Humanities/Women's Studies
Suffolk County Community College
533 College Rd.
Selden, NY 11790
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