Description: Identifies and analyzes thematizations of women and death from the past five centuries, illuminating the present and recent past.
Brief description: CLARE BIELBY is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York, UK.
Review Quotes:
[T]he essays . . . allow us . . . to discern . . . a clear intervention in and upending of conventional timetables and assumptions, particularly in terms of women's agency and where we might expect to find it. --MONATSHEFTE