Death & the Maiden

  • From Parlor Tricks to Primetime: Fame, Gender, and the History of Ghost Hunting

    From Parlor Tricks to Primetime: Fame, Gender, and the History of Ghost Hunting

    When you read the words ghost hunter, what kind of person springs to mind? I’ll wager many of you picture what I do: someone between the ages of 21 and 35, probably white, lit by the eerie glow of a night vision camera asking, “Did you guys hear that?” Oh yeah, the ghost hunter is…

  • Saving Face: Death, Necropolitics and the Hiroshima Maidens

    Saving Face: Death, Necropolitics and the Hiroshima Maidens

    Dr Becky Alexis-Martin introduces the Hiroshima Maidens. Their happiness was fundamental to state in diverting attention from the harm caused by the American attack upon Hiroshima. They were given a Western “rebirth” in the USA, their otherness neutralised by reconstructing them socially, culturally, and to some extent even physically in the image of the American…

  • The Best Of 2015

    Women and death, particularly the role women are currently playing in the death positive movement and as death professionals made frequent headlines this year. Here’s a recap of what 2015 had to offer from our co-founder Sarah Troop.

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