"When God Takes Away": Gendered Death Customs in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
Rituals surrounding death were social in addition to being religious. Virginians conveyed the status of the deceased through funerals, burials, gravestones, commemoration, and mourning. But these customs greatly differed according to gender, both in what they consisted of and who was responsible for...
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VCU Scholars Compass
2010
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| Online Access: | http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/74 http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1073&context=etd |