Widows' Words : : Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between / / ed. by Nan Bauer-Maglin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
• MitwirkendeR: Bauer-Maglin, Nan,; Bernays, Anne,; Braham, Susanne,; Butler, Edie,; Clarke Wadham, Elisa,; Derry, Alice,; Dugan, Penelope,; Dunham, Kelli,; Finney, Melanie K.,; Fordyce, Kathleen,; Friedensohn, Doris,; Froschl, Merle,; Goode-Elman, Alice,; Gussow, Joan,; Hajizadeh, Parvin,; Hirshman, Andrea,; Jaffe Robbins, Sonia,; Kaplan, Deborah E.,; Leung, Jean Y.,; Life, Patricia,; Madagame, Maggie,; Marshall, Maxine,; Marwell, Barbara E.,; Mayer, Debby,; Mceneny, Molly,; Menn, Lise,; Michelson, Joan,; Milcendeau, Tracy,; Moorehead, P. C.,; Neff Hernandez, Michele,; Radosh, Alice,; Ramkhelawan, Raquel,; Sabharwal, Tara,; Schrecker, Ellen,; Schwartz, Mimi,; Shamban, Nancy,; Sherman Ramos, Roni,; Silverstein, Christine,; Slawecki, Heather,; Temple, Kathryn,; Vanett, Lauren,; West, Carrie L.,; Womack, Nancy H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bauer-Maglin, Nan,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bernays, Anne.; Braham, Susanne.; Butler, Edie.; Derry, Alice.; Dugan, Penelope.; Dunham, Kelli.; Finney, Melanie K.; Fordyce, Kathleen.; Friedensohn, Doris.; Froschl, Merle.; Goode-Elman, Alice.; Gussow, Joan.; Hajizadeh, Parvin.; Hernandez, Michele Neff.; Hirshman, Andrea.; Kaplan, Deborah E.; Leung, Jean Y.; Life, Patricia.; Madagame, Maggie.; Marshall, Maxine.; Marwell, Barbara.; Mayer, Debby.; McEneny, Molly A.; Menn, Lise.; Michelson, Joan.; Milcendeau, Tracy.; Moorehead, P.C.; Radosh, Alice.; Ramkhelawan, Raquel.; Ramos, Roni Sherman.; Robbins, Sonia Jaffe.; Sabharwal, Tara.; Schrecker, Ellen.; Schwartz, Mimi.; Shamban, Nancy.; Silverstein, Christine.; Slawecki, Heather.; Temple, Kathryn.; Vanett, Lauren.; Wadham, Elisa Clark.; West, Carrie L.; Womack, Nancy H.
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.) :; 3 color images

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 f...

Table of Contents

• 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