Coping with Loss: A Guide to Death, Grief and Clinical Experiences with Dying Patients - Softcover

Currey, Erin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607859092 ISBN 13: 9781607859093

Publisher: Maize Books, 2025

Synopsis

At the height of her career, actress Charlotte Cushman (1816-76) was one of the most famous women in the English-speaking world. Cushman challenged Victorian notions of gender in her stage portrayals of male characters and of strong, androgynous female characters. Offstage, she was a powerful businesswoman who supported her family, women lovers, and friends. Lisa Merrill examines Cushman's personal correspondence to shed new light on the actress's relationships and in turn on our understandings of the nature of women's "romantic friendships." She demonstrates how Cushman's androgynous presence served as a symbol to many of her contemporaries, and revealed their multiple and often contradictory attitudes toward female performers, women, and the unspeakable possibilities of same-sex desire. The biography draws upon unpublished archival material as well as on current critical work to view Cushman's career, relationships, and posthumous reception. When Romeo Was a Woman examines as autobiographical performance Cushman's own narratives, the stories she authorized others to write, and the letters she wrote to intimates. The book is richly illustrated with many previously unpublished portraits of Cushman in her various stage roles, including Romeo and Lady Macbeth, and other revealing photographs of her family, lovers and friends. When Romeo Was a Woman will find an appreciative audience among general readers as well as specialists in gay/lesbian history, women's history, theater and performance, popular culture, Victorian studies, and American studies. "A fascinating story, and a major contribution to our understanding of lesbian history. . . . The work done on archival resources is both impressive in its extent and wholly convincing in its effect." --Jacky Bratton, University of London Lisa Merrill is Associate Professor of Communication and Performance Studies, Hofstra University. She is the coauthor of The Power to Communicate: Gender Differences as Barriers, and the author of Untying the Tongue: Power, Gender, and the Word, forthcoming.

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About the Author

Dr. Erin Currey is a resident physician in the Department of Internal Medicine (IM) at Wright Patterson Medical Center and Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She is a member of her residency’s Doctor’s Dilemma team, a trivia game styled after Jeopardy! a competition for residency programs across the country. Her research on healthcare provider grief has led her to serve on the Gold Humanism Honor Society Wellbeing Committee and as one of the TriService American College of Physician National Wellbeing Champions. She completed medical school at the University of Michigan. Before medical school, she was a scientific program analyst at the National Institutes of Health, supporting the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research Program. She completed her undergraduate degree at Wake Forest University, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa for academic excellence. She is a lifelong member of Alpha Phi Omega, the National Service Fraternity.

Dr. Molly Fessler studied sociology and peace studies at Bryn Mawr College before serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Belize from 2014 to 2016. She is the co-founder of Auxocardia Journal, a creative space for health professional students, and graduate with distinction of the University of Michigan Medical school. She is an Albert Schweitzer Fellow for Life, member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, and one of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s inaugural Wolfson scholars. Her academic and creative works have been published in Tendon Magazine, on NPR.org, in the Annals of Family Medicine, and Academic Medicine, among others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Maize Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1607859092
• ISBN 13: 9781607859093
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 74