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This work is a study of the sexual politics of death. It explores the specific relationship women of many colours, cultures, ages and sexual orientations have to their own deaths, looks at their attitudes towards loss, and their responses to their role as primary carers to the dying. Aiming to help readers to come to terms with the taboo that surrounds death, it looks in particular at ways in which cultural taboos and sexual politics shape and restrict women's roles and responsibilities around the sick and the dying. It discusses, for instance, Alzheimer's disease and women's roles and responses to AIDS and suicide, as well as the politics of illnesses such as breast cancer. Sally Cline won an Arts Council Writers Award for her work on this book, and is the author of "Women, Celibacy and Passion", "Just Desserts: Women and Food" and "Reflecting Men at Twice Their Natural Size".
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Lifting the Taboo: Women, Death, and Dying is the first major study of the sexual politics of death in the West. As such, it splits open the silence which both surrounds mortality and shrouds women's relationship to it. Illuminated by a profound yet humorous vision, Lifting the Taboo explores the specific relationship women of many colors, cultures, ages, and sexual orientations have to their own deaths, their attitudes towards loss, and their disposition to their role as primary care-givers to the dying.
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The author of several books, Sally Cline is the recipient of an Arts Council Writers Award (1995) for outstanding literary merit for her work on this book and a Harry Ransom Research Center Fellowship for her work on her forthcoming biography of the novelist Radclyffe Hall. She was for many years Co-Course organizer for Women's Studies at Cambridge University.
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- PublisherAbacus Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0349108161
- ISBN 13 9780349108162
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