Lifting the Taboo: Women, Death and Dying

by Sally Cline

Book Overview

lluminated 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.Specifically, the book weighs the implications of breast cancer and examines in detail Alzheimer's Disease which, contrary to popular myth, can in several significant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814714064
• ISBN13: 9780814714065
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.8"