Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1    The Social Construction of Women’s Roles (Traditional, Transitional, Modern/Postmodern)

Chapter 2    The Social Construction of Grief

Chapter 3    Women’s Socially Constructed Grief Response

Chapter 4    The Complexity of Grief

Chapter 5    Factors Influencing Grief Response

Chapter 6    Death of a Spouse or Partner: A Widow’s Grief

Chapter 7    Death of a Marriage: Divorce Grief

Chapter 8    Death of a Child: A Mother’s Loss and Grief

Chapter 9    Retirement Loss and Grief

Chapter 10   Health Impacts of Grief

Chapter 11   Beginnings and Reconciliations

Appendix: Summary of Feminist Movements

References

Index