Last Writes: A Daybook for a Dying Friend by Richardson, Laurel

Last Writes: A Daybook for a Dying Friend (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781598741865)

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Format: Hardcover
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Last Writes: A Daybook for a Dying Friend by Richardson, Laurel

Last Writes: A Daybook for a Dying Friend

$200.00
Last Writes: A Daybook for a Dying Friend by Richardson, Laurel

Last Writes: A Daybook for a Dying Friend

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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Betty Frankel Kirschner succumbed to emphysema one day in June. She had been a long-term professor at Kent State University, founding member of the feminist caucus in sociology, a political activist, a chain smoker. Close friend Laurel Richardson, a key figure in literary turn in ethnographic writing, kept a daybook, relating their conversations and interactions over Betty's last few months. Rich in memory, emotion, dreams, and life-and-death decisions, the daybook chronicles the ups and down of a terminally ill woman and the impact that illness has on friends, colleagues, and family alike. Richardson also grapples with the ethics of writing deeply personal narratives. Part memoir, part sociological analysis, part eulogy to a departed friend, Richardson opens a poignant window into living an academic life, and ending it.

Author: Laurel Richardson
ISBN-10: 1598741861
ISBN-13: 9781598741865
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2007
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
By Laurel Richardson
By Laurel Richardson
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Laurel Richardson is Professor Emeritus of Sociology from Ohio State University. She specializes in qualitative methodology, gender, symbolic interactionism, the sociology of knowledge and arts-based research. She served as co-editor of the Feminist Frontiers series and has authored six books, including Cooley Award-winner Fields of Play (Rutgers), Writing Strategies (Sage), The New Other Woman (Free Press), and Travels with Ernest (AltaMira).

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