Introduction
-Welcome new panelist Heather!
-How this podcast topic arose from Katie’s dissertation research
KNOWING
- The primacy of women’s roles in ancient Greek funeral practices
-Preparing bodies for burial
-Prothesis
- Gendered mourning in the Bible
-The mourning women of Jeremiah 9:17
-Job
-Naomi
-Jephthah’s daughter
- Medieval and Renaissance gendered mourning
-Medieval representations of the Three Maries mourning for Christ
-Gendered rules for mourning in early modern heraldic funerals
-Women’s continued roles as preparers of dead bodies
READING
- Patricia Phillippy’s Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England
-the mind/body dichotomy or Cartesian split as applied to gendered mourning, with women placing emphasis on the dead bodies and men emphasizing the exalted souls of the deceased
-maternal mourning mode vs. patriarchal mourning mode
- Richard III as a case study of gendered mourning
-Anne
-Margaret
- Later manifestations or discussions of gendered mourning
-Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (Marianne and Elinor Dashwood)
-Austen’s Persuasion (Anne Elliot and Captain James Benwick)
PASSING ON
-Kenneth C. Haugk’s Journeying Through Grief series
-Jason Reynolds’ The Boy in the Black Suit
-William Shakespeare’s King John (especially the character of Constance)
I am writing a final essay for my funerals practicum and the podcast was cut short! It would have been nice to write from a feminist theological perspective, as it does not exist in the 5 books I am writing from.