Death, gender, and ethnicity /
edited by David Field, Jenny Hockey, and Neil Small.
- xiv, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Making sense of difference: death, gender and ethnicity in modern Britain -- Death at the beginning of life -- 'Shoring up the walls of heartache': parental responses to the death of a child -- Masculinity and loss -- Women in grief: cultural representation and social practice -- Death and the transformation of gender in image and text -- Beauty and the Beast: sex and death in the tabloid press -- Absent minorities? Ethnicity and the use of palliative care services -- Culture is not enough: a critique of multi-culturalism in palliative care -- Death, gender and memory: remembering loss and burial as a migrant -- Death and difference -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.