Table of Contents
Introduction
Deleasa Randall-Griffiths and Patricia English-Schneider
Section I: Perspectives on Family Loss
Chapter 1: A Puzzle of Love and Loss
Nathan P. Stucky
Chapter 2: Losing Mama Lola: An Autoethnographic Story of Caregiving and Remorse
Olga Zatepilina-Monacell
Chapter 3: Surviving Our Aging: A Love Letter for My Mom
Lesa Lockford
Chapter 4: Honoring Mom: Layers of a Daughter’s Grief
Sharon L. Russell
Chapter 5: The Things That Knew Her: “Holding On” as a Way of “Letting Go”
Deleasa Randall-Griffiths
Chapter 6: “I Have a Son Named Jake…”: An Autoethnographic Application of the Continuing Bonds Theory
Nancy J. Brule
Chapter 7: Mother, Scholar, & Co-Victim: My Son’s Death by Police Homicide
Elizabeth Stephens
Chapter 8: Ripple Effect
Faith Griffiths
Chapter 9: Living Through Hell and Back: How Autoethnographic Performance Functions as a Means of Moving Through and Beyond the Grieving Process
Lori L. Montalbano
Section II: Broader Perspectives of Loss
Chapter 10: Living with Loss: A Poetic Autoethnography
Ronald J. Pelias
Chapter 11: Linework
Jonathan M. Gray
Chapter 12: Stones on the Beach, Ashes in the Woods: Locating Grief in Place and Time
Stephanie L. Young
Chapter 13: Anticipatory Grief and Dementia: Mourning The Lady Who Sings
Jacqueline Owens
Chapter 14. “She’s Not Doing it Right”: An Autoethnographic Exploration of One Woman’s Response to Loss
Kristi P. Treinan
Chapter 15: The Gift of Grief
Kimberly J. Stanislo
Chapter 16: Private Losses Made Public: Managing Boundaries to (Re)construct the Classroom
Leah E. Bryant and Joann Martyn
Chapter 17: Feminist Grief as Narrative Inquiry
Meggie Mapes, Savaughn Williams, and Myleah Brewer
Chapter 18: What Happens Between Support and Communal Coping?
Dena M. Huisman and Wendi Bellar
About the Contributors