Socio-religious bourgeois representations of mourning reached ac limaxi nt he 19th century.T he traditions practiced around graves,t he mourning attire,a nd the norms regulating onesbehaviourwere highlygendered:Mourningwas -based on the idea of the emotional woman and the rational man -something deemed "naturally" female. However, these mourning practices have changedover the course of the 20th century. Astrong stimulus for thesechanges has been the transformation of gender concepts, especially the collective expectationsofthe ideal woman. This paperdiscusses the transformations of socio-religious mourningrepresentations on thebasis of the idea of gender-changes.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.