Acceptance, 41; cultural acceptance, xv, 84; emotional acceptance, 52, 83; of child’s death, 123; of death, 101, 105; of divorce, 111, 112; of integration of masculine/feminine roles, 156; role acceptance, 9; stages of acceptance, 31
Adolescence, 12
Anger, 53, 62, 63, 66, 149; as a factor of grief response, 74; bereavement, 87, 100; death of a child, 121, 127; divorce, 110, 111, 112; expression through crying, 79, 81; health impacts of, 140, 143; healthy expression of, 156; of transitional role, 8; stages of 29, 31; temporality, 150, 151; widow’s anger, 93, 95, 98, 103
Anticipatory grief, 53, 93, 101
Antidepressants, 145
Anxiety, 68; emotional impact of divorce, 109, 110, 113; emotional response of death of a child, 127; factor influencing grief response, 71, 81, 82; grief response, 53; health impacts, 140, 141, 142, 145; in retirement, 138; level of attachment, 33; manifestation of fear, 81, 82; reconciling, 149; related to role, 9; stages, 29, 30
Assumptive world, 32, 40; related to death of a child, 127
Attig, xv; factors influencing grief response, 75; gender and grief, 57; individuating factors, 67; meaning reconstruction, 64, 65; postmodern grief response, 47; relearning one’s world, 40, 45; retirement, 139; tasks, 50
Bereavement: characteristics of, 35; constructivist approach, 59, 60; cultural responses to, 45; definition, xv; factors influencing, 66–83; health impacts/risk factors, 142, 144; of a child, 128; patterns of, 29; primary tasks of, 50; sudden death, 94; widow/spousal bereavement, 88
Bridge jobs, 138
Complicated grief, 37; cultural response to grief/social construction, 43; factors influencing grief response, 68, 70; health impacts, 140, 141, 142, 148; women’s age as influence, 88
Constructivist approach, 59
Continuing bonds, 32; cultural response/criticism, 38; factors influencing, 75, 76, 79; social construction, 41, 45
Crying: as healing process, 29, 79; complexity of grief, 62, 63; death of a child, 130; death of a marriage, 109, 113, 116; death of a spouse, 87, 92, 96, 98; factors influencing grief response, 77
Culture: cultural diversity, 54; culture-shaping of women’s roles, 2, 3, 4, 7, 15; ethnicity and culture, 4, 75, 83; social construction of women’s roles, 31; summary table, 154, 155, 158
Death-denying society, xiii, 32, 36, 90; impact, 97, 103
Deconstruction, 39
Denial: masculine mode, 58; risks of, 82, 84; stages, 31, 42, 53, 64; suicide, 104
Depression, xv; addressing depression in healthy ways, 144, 145; age, 88; in retirement, 139; manifestation and roles, 53, 68; public health issue, 140; stages, 110, 111; stages/phases, 29, 31, 33; sudden death, 100; suicide, 102; widowhood, 103, 106, 109
Dietary habits, 151
Divorce, xv, 110, 111; an alternate view, 112; divorce grief, 109; emotional impact of, 110; gray divorce, 118; impact of divorce, 74; influence of church, 3; other factors, 4; psychological/physical impacts, 112
Dyspnea, 63
Empty nest, 110
Encore careers, 138
Exercise, addressing grief in healthy ways, 143, 145, 151
Factors: predisposing, predictive, 59, 68
Fear: expressions of fear, 44, 71, 81; fear of death, 128; of rejection, 5, 44
Feminine Mystique, The, 112, 159
Feminine traits, qualities, characteristics, xiv, 83, 153, 156; impact on women, 47; role of, 7
Financial status, 66, 72, 81, 89, 139
Gender: traditional, 52, 77, 80; modern/postmodern, 56; role, xiv, 2, 4, 18, 43; transitional, 7, 55; difference 17, 57, 135, 160
Grandparents, 120, 129, 131, 136
Grief: factors influencing, 66, 67; feminine expression of, 77; grief as opportunity for growth, 147, 156, 158; grief response, socially constructed, 52, 60, 70, 141; grief work, 25, 29, 32, 35, 49; grief works through, 41, 156; healthy expression of, 28, 56, 156; risks of suppression of, 82; role and grief response, 153, 154; unresolved, 31, 35, 64, 129
Grieving styles: instrumental/intuitive grief, 80, 130, 154
Growth, 41, 115, 131; opportunity for, 156 158
Guilt, 9, 29, 62; parents’ guilt, 127, 151, 153; widow’s guilt, 99
Hospice, 165
Individuation, 57
Jewish funeral ritual, 84
Kübler-Ross’s five-stage model, 105
Left brain/right brain, 80
Libido, 127
Loss of identity, 138
Masculine, xiv, 16, 22, 57, 155–157
Menopause, 110
Mindfulness, 41
Missing child, 127
Modern/postmodern role, 133, 139, 153
Mother’s grief, 119
Muslim, 103
Patriarchal influence, 2, 22, 24, 25, 27
Physical manifestations, 140
Postmodern, 1, 151, 154, 160; loss in postmodern society, 28, 40
Power, 78
Presence, 104; God’s presence, 126
Prolonged grief disorder, 106, 141
PTSD, 68
Resilience, 45, 68, 74, 75, 141,
Rest: importance of, 144, 146, 147
Restoration-oriented, 33, 64, 107
Risk factors, 142
Self-esteem, 74, 143, 147, 152; Ruth’s story, 13
Self-identity, 10, 11, 67, 129, 158
Social construction, 24, 44, 152, 161
Spousal relationships: nontraditional, 106; traditional, 6–10, 13–16, 77, 86
Suicide, 53, 69, 91, 96; prevalence, 101; surviving, 104, 105; types, 102
Terminal illness, 90, 91, 93, 128
Traditional role, 1, 2, 3, 7, 11; cultural diversity and role, 54; response to grief, 55
Transitional role, 76; culture and role, 7
Widowhood, 71, 73, 86, 89, 143
Women’s movement, 5, 16, 24, 69
Yin and Yang, xvi
Yoga, 146