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All these groups attempted to transform death into a positive experience, anticipating much of today's death and dying activism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLofland turns a sociologist's eye on the era's increased interest in death, considering, among other things, the components of the modern face of death and the craft of dying, the construction of a dying role or identity by those who are dying, and the constraints on their freedom to do this. Lofland wrote just before the AIDS epidemic transformed the landscape of death and dying in the West; many of the trends she identified became the building blocks of AIDS activism in the 1980s and 1990s. \u003ci\u003eThe Craft of Dying\u003c\/i\u003e will help readers understand contemporary death social movements' historical relationships to questions of race, class, gender, and sexuality and is a book that everyone interested in end-of-life politics should read.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49730364506385,"sku":"NGR9780262537346","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50452497432849,"sku":"CIN0262537346G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50452500349201,"sku":"CIN0262537346VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53555779272977,"sku":"GOR014958598","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53557868003601,"sku":"GOR010016528","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262537346.jpg?v=1751101094"},{"product_id":"world-of-strangers-book-lyn-h-lofland-9780881331363","title":"A World of Strangers","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50335250120977,"sku":"CIN0881331368VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52105256665361,"sku":"CIN0881331368G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0881331368.jpg?v=1750704503"},{"product_id":"public-realm-book-lyn-h-lofland-9780202306087","title":"The Public Realm","description":"This book is about the \"public realm,\" defined as a particular kind of social territory that is found almost exclusively in large settlements. 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The data upon which the book's analysis is based are diverse: direct observation; interviews; contemporary photographs, historic etchings, prints and photographs, and historical maps; histories of specific urban public spaces or spatial types; and the relevant scholarly literature from sociology, environmental psychology, geography, history, anthropology, and architecture and urban planning and design. Its central argument is that while the existing body of accomplished work in the social sciences can be reinterpreted to make it relevant to an understanding of the public realm, this quintessential feature of city life deserves much more u it deserves to be the object of direct scholarly interest in its own right. 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