Reflective paper, On death and dying

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On death and dying, the book written by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in 1967 has been a turning point in death studies as well as in "patient care". Having interviewed over 200 terminally-ill patients, she came to the conclusion that dying was a process divided in five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance

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[...] Historians usually make sure they are not judgmental, that is, judging facts in terms of and and Thus, trying to establish whether women benefit of suffered from the Industrial Revolution is no easy task. There are scientific criteria upon which one may safely declare that women were better or worse off: standard of living, working conditions . But there are also decisive symbolic criteria which are subordinated to values and judgements: status, equality, liberty. Though this essay tries to be as “scientific” as possible, the argument on this issue is necessarily biased by the liberal stance of its author. [...]

[...] A parallel can be drawn with Enlightenment. The same ideas that seemed to keep women as passive citizens were in fact to give them a frame in which they could gain civil equality, une grand premiere in History. Bibliography - Professor Nolan's lectures - Lives and Voices: Sources in European Women's History, ed. By Lisa DiCaprio ane Merry E. Wiesner - Laura Levine Frader, Women in the industrial capitalist economy in Becoming visible, second edition. See Laura Levine Frader, Women in the industrial capitalist economy in Becoming visible. [...]

[...] Confronted to male prejudices, they did not even earn equal pay for equal work. Secondly, women in manufactures, factories and mines were mistreated by men supervisors: this includes not only beating, but also sexual harassment, a new phenomenon due to the apparition of women in the public sphere of work[2]. Thirdly, women did not work at home any longer, therefore it was far more difficult to look after the children and fulfil what was still considered as her domestic duty. [...]

[...] They were despised by male masters and supervisors as unskilled and vulnerable labour force. Their work was devaluated by the commonly shared assumption that they worked for money” although they fact prevented the starvation of the family”[4] and their domestic tasks were not considered If that was not enough, middle-class women looked down on them as mothers” who should not work and did not educate their children properly. Indeed, the new family ideal aroused by industrialisation was that women should not work and stay home, as good mothers and wives. [...]

[...] This was completely different from the previous family economy in which men and women produced finished goods and could decide how they work. Furthermore, they worked more, up to 15 hours a day, from dawn to dusk, and were never safe when dealing with machines or working in mines. In short, both working men and women had good reasons to miss their former way of working. In addition, it may be argued that the plight of women at work was worse than men's for several reasons. [...]