"Painful Leisure" and "Awful Business": Female Death Workers in Pennsylvania
In late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Pennsylvania, women were the primary caretakers of the dying and dead. Watchers tended to the physical, spiritual, and social needs of the dying. Layers out of the dead washed, groomed, fixed, and dressed dead bodies. Watchers and layers included female rel...
| Veröffentlicht in: | THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. - The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1877. - 140(2016), 1, Seite 31-55 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
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2016
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY |
| Schlagworte: | Layer out of the dead watcher dying dead embalming undertakers funeral death women Biological sciences mehr... |