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AU  - Bernays,Anne
AU  - Braham,Susanne
AU  - Butler,Edie
AU  - Clarke Wadham,Elisa
AU  - Derry,Alice
AU  - Dugan,Penelope
AU  - Dunham,Kelli
AU  - Finney,Melanie K.
AU  - Fordyce,Kathleen
AU  - Friedensohn,Doris
AU  - Froschl,Merle
AU  - Goode-Elman,Alice
AU  - Gussow,Joan
AU  - Hajizadeh,Parvin
AU  - Hernandez,Michele Neff
AU  - Hirshman,Andrea
AU  - Jaffe Robbins,Sonia
AU  - Kaplan,Deborah E.
AU  - Leung,Jean Y.
AU  - Life,Patricia
AU  - Madagame,Maggie
AU  - Marshall,Maxine
AU  - Marwell,Barbara
AU  - Marwell,Barbara E.
AU  - Mayer,Debby
AU  - McEneny,Molly A.
AU  - Mceneny,Molly
AU  - Menn,Lise
AU  - Michelson,Joan
AU  - Milcendeau,Tracy
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AU  - Moorehead,P.C.
AU  - Neff Hernandez,Michele
AU  - Radosh,Alice
AU  - Ramkhelawan,Raquel
AU  - Ramos,Roni Sherman
AU  - Robbins,Sonia Jaffe
AU  - Sabharwal,Tara
AU  - Schrecker,Ellen
AU  - Schwartz,Mimi
AU  - Shamban,Nancy
AU  - Sherman Ramos,Roni
AU  - Silverstein,Christine
AU  - Slawecki,Heather
AU  - Temple,Kathryn
AU  - Vanett,Lauren
AU  - Wadham,Elisa Clark
AU  - West,Carrie L.
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TI  - Widows' Words: Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between 
SN  - 9780813599571
U1  - 306.88/3 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Bereavement
KW  - Grief
KW  - Widows in literature
KW  - Widows
KW  - SELF-HELP / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - widow, memoir, grief, strength, partner, widowhood, mother, parenthood, resilience, death, loss, suicide, deceased, bereavement
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Introduction --; Part I: Prologue—Expectant Widows --; What We Were Afraid Of: A Memoir --; The Queen Has Spoken --; Living a Life --; Preparing for the Journey through Grief --; Deserted/Dumped for a Second Time --; From Pre-Widow to Merry Widow --; Part II: Recent Widows --; A Widow’s Notes: The First Six Months --; My Other Half --; The Cloak --; “The Most Precious Fit”: A Dialogue with C. S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed --; On Grief --; Wedding Rings --; The Afterlife of an Archive --; A Healing Garden --; You See, I Told You So! --; Yes, I Miss My Husband, but I’m Also Discovering the Pleasures of Living Alone --; Part III: Long-Time Widows --; The Grief Convention --; 10 Scary Things I Have Done since My Husband Died --; Being Alone --; Re-creating My Life --; Becoming Maggie --; Who I Am Revealed --; Losing the Artist, Living with His Art --; After the Aftermath --; Three Poems --; Part IV: Unique Takes or Digging Deeper --; Widow-to- Widow --; Parenting as a Widow --; Memories of a Widow’s Daughter --; Lost Acts . . . --; Dealing with Double Loss: Husband and Hearing --; Synchronicity and the Secular Mind --; Mourning American-Style --; The Rocks That Bind --; On Not Feeling Sad --; What They Don’t Tell You --; Nine Things Resilient People Do after Losing a Spouse or Partner --; Make Lemonade?! --; Part V: Epilogue --; The Missing Vow --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ARTIST’S STATEMENT --; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; restricted access
N2  - Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words. Some were widowed young, while others were married for decades. Some cared for their late partners through long terminal illnesses, while others lost their partners suddenly. Some had male partners, while others had female partners. Yet each of these women faced the same basic dilemma: how to go on living when a part of you is gone. Widows’ Words is arranged chronologically, starting with stories of women preparing for their partners’ deaths, followed by the experiences of recent widows still reeling from their fresh loss, and culminating in the accounts of women who lost their partners many years ago but still experience waves of grief. Their accounts deal honestly with feelings of pain, sorrow, and despair, and yet there are also powerful expressions of strength, hope, and even joy. Whether you are a widow yourself or have simply experienced loss, you will be sure to find something moving and profound in these diverse tales of mourning, remembrance, and resilience
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813599571
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813599571
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