Centuries of Solace Download

Author: Wendy Simonds
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0877229317

Centuries of Solace: Expressions of Maternal Grief in Popular Literature (Health, Society, and Policy)

Since the late 1970s, the grief of women who experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of an infant has been an increasingly visible topic in mainstream American publications. Download Centuries of Solace: Expressions of Maternal Grief in Popular Literature (Health, Society, and Policy) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Wendy Simonds and Barbara Katz Rothman look to 19th-century women's magazines and later to confession magazines to explore the antecedents of modern writings on maternal grief and the information they convey about women from each time period. This is the first book that analyzes popular consolation literature as it changed over two centuries. The authors include a large selection of the writings that they view as social records that recognize and legitimize women's experience. Women's magazines of the last century, such as "Godey's Lady's Book" and "Petersen's", Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.