Fighting for Social Justice: The Life Story of David S. Burgess

This unusual book, "The World of Obituaries," looks at obituaries as a rich source of information on cultural representations of gender. It examines obituaries published from 1938 to 1998 in three cultures—Egypt, Iran, and the United States—to analyze how women and men are represented in their death notices and how these representations have changed over time. Mushira Eid has applied quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques to 4,400 obituaries, using names, titles, and occupations as l…