{"product_id":"widows-mineke-schipper-9781908906694","title":"Widows: The Last Feminist Taboo","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Japanese, the word for widow - a woman who has outlived her husband - literally translates as 'she who has not yet died.' For millennia, widows have lived on the margins of society: banished to the wilderness, silenced, and shrouded in black or white. Across cultures, laws and local customs have maligned them as witches, dependants or objects of pity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn some traditions, widows are expected to remarry within the husband's family, or even - in extreme cases - commit self-immolation - expectations not placed on men. Yet widowhood has also brought unexpected freedoms: financial, social and sexual autonomy denied to married women. In medieval Europe, widows owned property and ran businesses; in India's Maratha courts, they wielded political influence long before married women could. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on sources from Ancient Egypt and Greece to Africa, the Americas and beyond, cultural historian Mineke Schipper explores widowhood as both oppression and liberation. \u003cem\u003eWidows\u003c\/em\u003e reveals one of feminism's last great taboos, and the story of women the world has long refused to see. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mineke Schipper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1908906693\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781908906694\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Westbourne Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/19\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Mineke Schipper","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49171197133055,"sku":"9781908906694","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/widows-mineke-schipper-9781908906694","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}