Women & End of Life

100 Black Women of Funeral Service
Aberration of the Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War Era by Diane Sommerville
African American Funeral Programs from the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library-System
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Black Female Undertakers in 20^th-Century Baltimore by Kami Fletcher
Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977-2011: She Bites Back by Kendra Parker
Black Women and the Peoples Temple in Jonestown by Sikivu Hutchinson
Death and the American South by Craig Thompson and Lorri Glover (editors)
Death Becomes Her: Cultural Narratives of Femininity and Death in Nineteenth Century America by Sheri Weinstein and Elizabeth Dill
Death & the Maiden
“Exhuming Women’s Premarket Duties in the Care of the Dead” by Georganne Rundblad (Gender and Society, 1995)
Extremis (2016)
Feminist Death Work: A History by Kami Fletcher
Funeral Divas: How Women are Returning to the Death Care Industry in Droves by Vinnie Rotondaro
Grave Diggers & Body Washers – Great Women in Death History by Sarah Chavez
Holy Spirits: The Power and Legacy of America’s Female Spiritualists by Dianca London Potts
Horror Noire Syllabus
“ ‘I Never Regretted Coming to Africa’: The Story of Harriet Ruggles Loomis’ Gravestone” by Laurel Gabel (Markers, 1999)
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
Miss Evers Boys (1997)
Motherhood on the Battlefield of Death by Sarah Chavez
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home by Sheri Booker
Not Just the Funeral: Queen Sugar Puts the African American Burial Tradition on Full Display by Kami Fletcher
“Objects of Immortality: Hairwork and Mourning in Victorian Visual Culture” by Rachel Harmeyer (conference essay)
Passed On: African American Mourning Stories, a Memorial by Karla Holloway
“Paying Your Respects: Transgender Women and Detransitioning After Death” by Karol Kovalovich Weaver (Death Studies, 2018)
Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West by Annette Stott
Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America by Ann Braude
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (2018)
“ ‘Sealing the Bond’: A Qualitative Study of African American Funeral Rituals” by Danielle (Grant) Graham (dissertation)
Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualismby Barbara Weisberg
Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory Among Gullah/Geechee Women by LeRhonda Manigault-Bryan
Taryn Simon: An Occupation of Loss by Taryn Simon
The Aztec Women Who Became Goddesses After Dying During Childbirth by Alejandro López
The Best Man Holiday (2013)
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosina, Croatia and Kosovo by Clea Koff
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lord
The Family, Women and Death: Comparative Studies by S.C. Humphreys
The First Decoration Day by David Blight Newark Star Ledger (April 27, 2015)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Naked Truth: Death by Delivery
The Politics of Mourning: Death and Horror in Arlington National Cemetery by Micki McElya
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation by Daina Ramey Berry
“Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Bereavement (TGNC): A Case Study on Complicated Grief Experienced and the Effect of Partner Suicide on Interpersonal Relationships and Subsequent Partnerships of the Bereaved” (Death Studies, 2019) by Rachael Nolan
Truth and Lies: Jonestown – Paradise Lost (2018)
Women in Funeral Service
Women and the Material Culture of Death by Maureen Daly Groggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin (editors)
“Women’s Deathbeath Pulpits: From Quiet Congregants to Iconic Ministers” by Lisa Shaver (Rhetoric Review, 1995)
Women’s Ritual in Formative Oaxaca: Figure-Making, Divination, Death and the Ancestors by Joyce Marcus

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