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18 Cards in this Set
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Forget Me Not
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Geoffrey Batchen, photos of the living were turned into mass media products, created by women, a type of mourning. photography does not enhance memory it replaces it. ultimate goal of these items is immortality
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The Gender Of Death
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K. Guthke. Is death a woman? Different cultures say different things. in spain, france art and literature personify death as a woman. in germany and england--a man. female image of death becomes dominant in the 20th cent.
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The American Way of Death
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Joan Mitford. Capitalistic view of american death. we turn the corpse into a commodity. standards of death rose when the standards of living did. commercialize death, expensive caskets, vault
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Thin Woman
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Helen Malson. Discourse of Anorexia. Panopticon.
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Year of Magical Thinking
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Joan Didieon
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Close to the Knives
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David Wojnarowicz. work of mourning for Dakota. AIDS. allows him to properly mourn for dakota, as he was unable to do for his other friends.
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Sleeping Beauty
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Stanley Burns
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Over Her Dead Body
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Elizabeth Bronfen. gender constructions are supplementary to the division between life and death and serve to draw a boundary between these two mutually implicated terms• Edger Allen Poe is addressed in the statement “death of a beautiful woman is the most beautiful topic in the world.” This is something Bronfen agreed with. The body is the worst thing to lose during death, not the soul. Women were invisible, unspoken, outside of social construct according to Bronfen but not by nature.Beauty is seen as a veil of death; interminable surface of projections, she calls it a “fantasy of gender. The idea of femininity is a social construct.
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Death of a Hired Hand
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Robert Frost
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Melancholia and Moralism
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Douglas Crimp. Who Killed Vito? The gay community, the public figures who do not speak out about AIDS. AIDS as an invisible disease, normalization of AIDS. Quilt as a process of mourning, ritual and spectacle, humanize and dignify the loss. vicarious mourning: something people take pleasure in by looking at the deaths of all gays.
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American Elegy
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Max Cavitch. slaves mourning, or lack thereof. were not supposed to mourn because they were outside of society. phillis wheatley professional mourner for whites.she was able to mourn through the writing. spirituals were a way to mourn. African Americans were made to bear the stigma of mortality by having an abject death and by having slaves/ blacks (Phillis Wheatley) perform the mourning for whites by writing their elegies
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Masculinity and Loss
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Neil Thompson. disenfranchised grief, which is grief that is usually socially unacceptable to display, like the death of a mistress or gay lover. If a male encounters this grief, it is called double disenfranchisement because not only can the male not grieve because it is not accepted in society to begin with, on top of that, it is a male so it is even considered more unacceptable masculine mourning often active. men more often to opt for the practical forms of mourning at the expense of emotional ones.
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Killing the Female: The Archaeology of Infanticide
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Eleanor Scott. critiquing archaeological study of infanticide. infanticide as a way of getting rid of baby girls. linking death with a female body is our doing. when women of a culture of economic power, infanticide does not occur. infant boys were killed. difficulties of killing neonates was overcome using a number of social strategies such as believing the infant would be reborn later or denying the human existence of the newborn infant.
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Women in Grief
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Jenny Hockey. Cultural representations of overly grieving women “competent performance of grief” Women symbolize grief rather than show it. The way we see death represented today is way different than the typology she expresses. 5 types of grieving women
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Home Burial
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Robert Frost. gender reaches a crisis point at death. wife blames husband for death of child. in a sense shows his immortality. her husband does not mourn adequately. stairs symbolize power. he will give up being a man if she stays...meaning he wont hit her
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A Gesture Life
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Chang-rae Lee. obsessed with death. equal number of male/female deaths. deaths of women much more detailed, and beauty is focused on. hata has handled capitalism successfully but doesn't know how to handle death. extended elegy for Kay. how do you die in the american culture when there is no ritual? women very powerless in novel, suicide over rape. comfort women as worst form of gender discrimination
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Death and Transformation of Gender in Image and Text
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Elizabeth Hallam. gender images shift over time depending on society and culture. gender politics represented through family dynamics, husband controlling wife/kids. Eve as root of man's moral downfall, sin linked with death. alongside these images stand representations of death, incorporating women's interpretations of their positinons within the dying process and highlight the valued aspects of women's paacticies in the space of death.
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Western Attitudes Toward Death
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Philippe Aries. Tamed Death, death that is expected. death on the sickbed, organized death rituals etc.e.g. knights who position themselves in a cross. living and dead were separated through cemeteries put outside of the community. Ones own death. (shift from collective deth to individual death, alst judgement) Forbidden Death (shameful, people dying in hospital
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