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)