Widows: a global history

Schipper, Mineke

From the very oldest written texts, widows have been lumped together with orphans, the emphasis being on their helplessness. The need to present women without husbands as inept and dependent must have been great, with jokes being made about this phenomenon millennia ago; no, a widow could not possibly live without a husband, but in her search for a new partner, she would make a fool of herself ...

Publisher: Speaking Tiger Publishing

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