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- 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 20th-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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