title: Domesticating Deathcare: The Women of the U.S. Natural Deathcare Movement.
abstract: This article examines the women-led natural deathcare movment in the early 21stcentury U.S., focusing upon the movement's non-coincidental epistemological and gender-political similarities to the natural childbirth movement. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and drawing upon the author's intensive interviews with pioneers and leaders of the U.S. natural deathcare movement, as well as from the author's own participation in the movement, this article argues that the political similarities between the countercultural natural childbirth and natural deathcare movements reveal a common cultural provocation-one that spans the natal transition and the fatal transition.
authors.affiliation: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA. prolson@vt.edu.
authors.forename: Philip R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Olson
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D000074100:Funeral Homes; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012922:Social Change; D013727:Terminal Care; D014481:United States
keywords: Childbirth; Dead body; Medicalization of the body; Midwifery; U.S. funeral culture