文档介绍：Death, Gender and Ethnicity
Death, Gender and Ethnicity examines the ways in which gender
and ethnicity shape the experiences of dying and bereavement,
taking as its focus the diversity of modes through which the
universal event of death is encountered. As well as offering an
extensive critical review of existing work on death, gender and
ethnicity, the book addresses such topics as:
• stillbirth
• gendered parental bereavement through the death of a child
• gendered social construction of mourning and grief
• disruption of gender stereotypes at the time of death
• media treatment of the violent deaths of young women
• provision of palliative care for ethnic minorities
• issues facing immigrant ethnic minorities.
Finally it asks about the value of a postmodern approach to the
diversity and indeed fragmentation of human experience which
currently constitutes death and dying.
Drawing on a range of case studies, Death, Gender and Ethnicity
seeks to develop a more sensitive theoretical approach which may
not only inform future studies in this area but lead to the revision
of some classic material.
David Field is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of
Plymouth, Jenny Hockey is Lecturer in Health Studies at the
University of Hull and Neil Small is Senior Research Fellow at the
Trent Palliative Care Centre, Sheffield.
Contents
List of illustrations vii
Notes on contributors viii
Introduction xi
1 Making sense of difference: death, gender and
ethnicity in modern Britain 1
David Field, Jenny Hockey and Neil Small
2 Death at the beginning of life 29
Alice Lovell
3 ‘Shoring up the walls of heartache’: parental responses
to the death of a child 52
Gordon Riches and Pamela Dawson
4 Masculinity and loss 76
Neil Thompson
5 Women in grief: cultural representation and social
practice 89
Jenny Hockey
6 Death and the transformation of gender in image
and text 108
Elizabeth Hallam
7 Beauty and the Beast: sex and death