Widows' words : women write on the experience of grief, the first year, the long haul, and everything in between /

Widows' words : women write on the experience of grief, the first year, the long haul, and everything in between /

Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words. Some were widowed young, while others were married f...

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Other Authors: Maglin, Nan Bauer (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Widows.
Widows in literature.
Grief.
Bereavement.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction / Bauer-Maglin, Nan
  • Part I: Prologue
  • Expectant Widows
  • What We Were Afraid Of: A Memoir / Goode-Elman, Alice
  • The Queen Has Spoken / Dunham, Kelli
  • Living a Life / Dugan, Penelope
  • Preparing for the Journey through Grief / Finney, Melanie K.
  • Deserted/Dumped for a Second Time / Bauer-Maglin, Nan
  • From Pre-Widow to Merry Widow / Schrecker, Ellen
  • Part II: Recent Widows
  • A Widow's Notes: The First Six Months / Bauer-Maglin, Nan
  • My Other Half / Ramkhelawan, Raquel / Marshall, Maxine
  • The Cloak / Vanett, Lauren
  • "The Most Precious Fit": A Dialogue with C.S. Lewis's A Grief Observed / Derry, Alice
  • On Grief / Neff Hernandez, Michele
  • Wedding Rings / Clarke Wadham, Elisa
  • The Afterlife of an Archive / Kaplan, Deborah E.
  • A Healing Garden / Moorehead, P.C.
  • You See, I Told You So! / Schwartz, Mimi
  • Yes, I Miss My Husband, but I'm Also Discovering the Pleasures of Living Alone / Bernays, Anne
  • Part III: Long-Time Widows
  • The Grief Convention / Butler, Edie
  • 10 Scary Things I Have Done since My Husband Died / Mayer, Debby
  • Being Alone / Jaffe Robbins, Sonia
  • Re-creating My Life / Marwell, Barbara E.
  • Becoming Maggie / Madagame, Maggie
  • Who I Am Revealed / Sherman Ramos, Roni
  • Losing the Artist, Living with His Art / Friedensohn, Doris
  • After the Aftermath / Womack, Nancy H.
  • Three Poems / Michelson, Joan
  • Part IV: Unique Takes or Digging Deeper
  • Widow-to- Widow / Milcendeau, Tracy / Froschl, Merle / Hirshman, Andrea / Mceneny, Molly / Slawecki, Heather
  • Parenting as a Widow / Fordyce, Kathleen
  • Memories of a Widow's Daughter / Life, Patricia
  • Lost Acts ... / Shamban, Nancy
  • Dealing with Double Loss: Husband and Hearing / Braham, Susanne
  • Synchronicity and the Secular Mind / Radosh, Alice
  • Mourning American-Style / Hajizadeh, Parvin
  • The Rocks That Bind / Leung, Jean Y.
  • On Not Feeling Sad / Gussow, Joan
  • What They Don't Tell You / Temple, Kathryn
  • Nine Things Resilient People Do after Losing a Spouse or Partner / West, Carrie L.
  • Make Lemonade?! / Menn, Lise
  • Part V: Epilogue
  • The Missing Vow / Silverstein, Christine
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ARTIST'S STATEMENT / Sabharwal, Tara
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

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