[have to dig up the earlier stuff, recorded new segment today]
The Feminization of American Culture, by Ann Douglas (1977)
Ch. 6: The Domestication of Death.
http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/M...C-p140-156.mp3 (54m)
- first two subsections. women/clergy write about the dead. the rural cemetery movement begins in 1831. cemeteries move from churchyards to outskirts, becomes gardens and disney worlds of their time.