Widows' words : women write on the experience of grief, the first year, the long haul, and everything in between
Record details
- ISBN: 9780813599533
- ISBN: 0813599539
- ISBN: 9780813599571
- ISBN: 0813599571
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (270 pages) : color illustrations
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Computer data. - Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:january.21 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by EBSCO. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Multi-User. Widows Widows in literature SELF-HELP -- General Grief Bereavement Widows Widows in literature Grief Bereavement |
Genre: | Electronic books. |