Tag: Motherhood

• Double Take at Sharon Tate

  

  This summer marked 48 years since the brutal murder of Sharon Tate and her unborn son. After discovering crime scene photographs framed at Hollywood’s Museum of Death; Tia Price reflects on the lasting legacy of this valley doll, icon and mother.

  Death and the Maiden

  30/09/2017

  Guest Post

  Charles Manson, Deadmaidens, Death, Fame, Hollywood, Icon, Legacy, Motherhood, Murder, Photography, Sharon Tate

• The Rebozo: Fashion, Feminism and Death

  Death & the Maiden’s own Sarah Chavez presents the rebozo. For centuries, broken-hearted mothers have wrapped their lifeless infants in them for burial and covered their faces with it to signify mourning. The use of the rebozo as a shroud was once so common in Mexico, many artisans created them solely for this purpose, whereas today,…

  Death and the Maiden

  06/04/2015

  Maiden Post, Sarah Troop

  Burial Shrouds, Culture, Fashion, Feminism, Frida Kahlo, Good Death, Heritage, History, Las Soldaderas, Latin America, Memento Mori, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Motherhood, Mourning, Pregnancy, Rebozo, Textiles

• The Final Girl

  

  The last girl standing has been debated by horror fans and academics alike. We can track her evolution through the main stream of horror but her story existed long before the 1970s. For every final girl we find a fallen woman. Looking back at Victorian fiction we find that sex equaled death long before masked…

  Death and the Maiden

  23/03/2015

  Lucy Coleman Talbot

  Cinema, Deadmaidens, Death, Fallen Women, Fiction, Film, Final Girl, Genre, Gothic, Horror, Imagery, Innocence, Literature, Motherhood, Narrative, Revival, Sex, Slasher Film, Symbolism, Violence