Thursday, May 26, 2011

Review: Toni Calasanti on The Older Man’s Experience of Widowhood

Deborah K. van den Hoonaard, By Himself: The Older Man’s Experience of Widowhood. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010, 176 pp. $45.00 hardcover (978-1-4426-4109-9)

Deborah van den Hoonaard seeks to close gaps in research on how widowers make sense of their situations, and how men “often … attempt to highlight their masculine selves.” Despite the relative rarity of widowers and their general disinterest in interviews, van den Hoonaard managed to speak with twenty-six men aged 60 and over … Read more