Widows And Their Families

Author : Peter Marris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136531927

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Widows and their families by Peter Marris Pdf

One of the first books to be published in the UK on bereavement, this ground-breaking study presents the results of a survey of widows in London. Focussing on younger women whose husbands had died the book deals first with grief and mourning then examines the consequences of bereavement through the help of relatives and friends and the changes it brings about to the widow's family life. Throughout the book the consequences of widowhood are discussed with relevance to psychological theory and to national policy. Originally published in 1958.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1091217863

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The Widowed Self The Older Woman’s Journey Through Widowhood by Anonim Pdf

How do older women come to terms with widowhood? Are they vulnerable or courageous, predictable or creative in dealing with this life challenge? Most books about widows usually focus on younger women; this book interweaves the voices of older widows their experiences and insights to show how they have come to terms with widowhood and have recreated their lives in new, unsuspected ways. The widows speak about how they relate to their children, their friends, to men. With powerful emotions they describe their husbands’ final illnesses and deaths, and the challenging early days of widowhood. Disputing stereotypes about older women and widows, The Widowed Self allows the reader to visualize the impact of losing one’s life partner and offers a new way of thinking about widowhood. This new book by Deborah Kestin van den Hoonaard fills a void in previous work on widowhood. Rather than seeing these women as unfortunate, passive victims of life, the reader will come to appreciate the strength and creativity with which these women face one of life’s greatest challenges, a challenge that affects more than half of all women over the age of sixty-five. Widows and their families, scholars, social workers and other professionals who work with older adults will all be interested in reading The Widowed Self: The Older Woman’s Journey through Widowhood.

Author : Deborah Kestin van den Hoonaard
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554587223

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The Widowed Self by Deborah Kestin van den Hoonaard Pdf

How do older women come to terms with widowhood? Are they vulnerable or courageous, predictable or creative in dealing with this life challenge? Most books about widows usually focus on younger women; this book interweaves the voices of older widows their experiences and insights to show how they have come to terms with widowhood and have recreated their lives in new, unsuspected ways. The widows speak about how they relate to their children, their friends, to men. With powerful emotions they describe their husbands’ final illnesses and deaths, and the challenging early days of widowhood. Disputing stereotypes about older women and widows, The Widowed Self allows the reader to visualize the impact of losing one’s life partner and offers a new way of thinking about widowhood. This new book by Deborah Kestin van den Hoonaard fills a void in previous work on widowhood. Rather than seeing these women as unfortunate, passive victims of life, the reader will come to appreciate the strength and creativity with which these women face one of life’s greatest challenges, a challenge that affects more than half of all women over the age of sixty-five. Widows and their families, scholars, social workers and other professionals who work with older adults will all be interested in reading The Widowed Self: The Older Woman’s Journey through Widowhood.

Author : Helena Znaniecka Lopata
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015037420711

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Current Widowhood by Helena Znaniecka Lopata Pdf

This unique textbook synthesizes the information available on the topic of widowhood, presenting and then debunking a number of myths surrounding widowhood. The book begins with a definition of basic concepts, followed by a comparative and historical perspective on the situation of widows in several countries and selected communities in the United States. It then explores a range of subjects and issues including emotions, identity, roles and external relationships of widows from cross-cultural perspectives.

Author : Esther R. Goshen-Gottstein
Publisher : Gefen Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Goshen-Gottstein, Moshe
ISBN : UOM:39015059555063

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Surviving Widowhood by Esther R. Goshen-Gottstein Pdf

"It slowly began to dawn on me that, like millions of other women all over the world, I had been left forever by my husband." An estimated eighty percent of married women can expect to be widowed in the future. In Surviving Widowhood, a clinical psychologist explores her experience after the death of her husband, describing the profound changes to her understanding of herself, and her adjustment to the new configuration of her life. Addressing such aspects of widowhood as: reactions of family, especially grandchildren; her dreams, and their significance, in the aftermath of her husband's death; the importance of Jewish tradition and ritual; maintaining memories; and reintegrating into life, the result is a moving and uplifting read. Surviving Widowhood is an essential resource for women and their families and friends, as well as therapists, and at the same time is an intensely readable human story.

Author : Rosemary O'Day
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349236541

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The Family and Family Relationships, 1500-1900 by Rosemary O'Day Pdf

While historians have written with ease about the state and the church, the family has so far defied historical analysis. As the primary cell of human social organisation, upon which both state and church depend, it is of crucial importance. In this concise, informative and stimulating book, Rosemary O'Day seeks to explain the difficulties facing the historian of the family and to suggest strategies for their solution. She compares families and households in time, space and economy over the period 1500-1914 and draws together the important existing work.

Author : Helena Znaniecka Lopata
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0822307685

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Widows: The Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific by Helena Znaniecka Lopata Pdf

What happens whene the husband dies depends on the society, on the location of the widow in urban-rural or class terms, and on the widow's own personal resources. In some societies the woman is totally dependent upon a grown son and cannot remarry; in others, such as that in the United States, she is more dependent upon her own resouces and wishes. For some, widowhood results in a great loss of status; for others, it can mean loneliness and social isolation. Yet widowhood can mean greater social freedom for some women, a "blooming of personality. Even grief is experienced in various ways and degrees. Thus there is no such thing as a "widow type," only a great heterogenity in widowhood, as in "wifehood." Volume I analyzes the support systems and life-styles of widows in Australia, the Philippines, Korea, Iran, China, a Pacific island, India, Turkey, and Israel. Volume II : North America examines two communities in Canada, a Florida retirement community, and communities in several other locations, as well as the relative situations of homeowners, blacks, and poor ethnic populations.

Author : Genevieve Davis Ginsburg
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780738211336

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Widow To Widow by Genevieve Davis Ginsburg Pdf

From a widow and therapist, a guide to life after losing a husband, with reflections on grief and practical advice In this remarkably useful guide, widow, author, and therapist Genevieve Davis Ginsburg offers fellow widows -- as well as their family and friends -- sage advice for coping with the loss of a husband. From learning to travel and eat alone to creating new routines to surviving the holidays and anniversaries that reopen emotional wounds, Ginsburg give guidance on: Dealing with anger and guilt Maintaining family relationships Dating after widowhood Handling money Responding to others' support And more Widow to Widow walks readers through the challenges of widowhood and encourages them on their path to building a new life.

Author : Charles Letourneau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Families
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047667048

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The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family by Charles Letourneau Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Military pensions
ISBN : LOC:0018699243A

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Uniform Pensions to Widows and Children and Dependent Parents of Certain Persons who Served the United States in Time of War, and for Other Purposes by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on pensions
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110741712

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Uniform Pensions to Widows and Children and Dependent Parents of Certain Persons who Served the United States in Time of War, and for Other Purposes. Hearing .... on H.R. 7230 by United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on pensions Pdf

Author : Vivian Bruce Conger
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814717110

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The Widows' Might by Vivian Bruce Conger Pdf

In early American society, one’s identity was determined in large part by gender. The ways in which men and women engaged with their communities were generally not equal: married women fell under the legal control of their husbands, who handled all negotiations with the outside world, as well as many domestic interactions. The death of a husband enabled women to transcend this strict gender divide. Yet, as a widow, a woman occupied a third, liminal gender in early America, performing an unusual mix of male and female roles in both public and private life. With shrewd analysis of widows’ wills as well as prescriptive literature, court appearances, newspaper advertisements, and letters, The Widows’ Might explores how widows were portrayed in early American culture, and how widows themselves responded to their unique role. Using a comparative approach, Vivian Bruce Conger deftly analyzes how widows in colonial Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Maryland navigated their domestic, legal, economic, and community roles in early American society.

Author : Kenda Mutongi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226554228

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Worries of the Heart by Kenda Mutongi Pdf

Growing up in the Maragoli community in Kenya, Kenda Mutongi encountered a perplexing contradiction. While the young teachers at her village school railed against colonialism, many of her elders, including her widowed mother, praised their former British masters. In this moving book, Mutongi explores how both the challenges and contradictions of colonial rule and the frustrations and failures of independence shaped the lives of Maragoli widows and their complex relations with each other, their families, and the larger community. Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, rates of widowhood have been remarkably high in Kenya. Yet despite their numbers, widows and their families exist at the margins of society, and their lives act as a barometer for the harsh realities of rural Kenya. Mutongi here argues that widows survive by publicly airing their social, economic, and political problems, their “worries of the heart.” Initially aimed at the men in their community, and then their colonial rulers, this strategy changed after independence as widows increasingly invoked the language of citizenship to demand their rights from the new leaders of Kenya—leaders whose failure to meet the needs of ordinary citizens has led to deep disenchantment and altered Kenyans’ view of their colonial past. An innovative blend of ethnography and historical research, Worries of the Heart is a poignant narrative rich with insights into postcolonial Africa.

Author : Linda Donovan
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781728320984

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After Loss by Linda Donovan Pdf

With After Loss, Linda Donovan provides a compassionate approach to help people rebuild their lives while tending to their grief. Linda experienced grief when she lost her husband to cancer. She offers deep insight from her perspective as a grief-support volunteer for hospice, where she has helped countless widows, widowers, partners, and their families. Linda shares how you can work through your grief and move forward at a comfortable pace. Through her own personal experience, best practices, and creative exercises, she lays out a road map to assist you in adjusting to your new life.

Author : Renzo Derosas,Michel Oris
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Death
ISBN : 3906768236

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When Dad Died by Renzo Derosas,Michel Oris Pdf

This volume is an important contribution to the social and cultural history of the family and documents that widowhood and orphanhood were commonplace before the twentieth century. How did the survivors cope with such tragedy? What kind of support did they receive from their community and relatives? How many widows remarried? How many children grew up as step-children or wards? And how did these circumstances influence their futures? While individual stories are frequent themes in literature, the social history of these experiences has yet to be written, especially from a comparative perspective. The 16 essays in this book provide a fresh look at the family history of widowhood and orphanhood in a dozen European and Asian countries.