{"product_id":"widows-9781908906694","title":"Widows: The Last Feminist Taboo","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Japanese, the word for widow – a woman who has outlived her husband – literally translates as ‘she who has not yet died.’ For millennia, widows have lived on the margins of society: banished to the wilderness, silenced, and shrouded in black or white. Across cultures, laws and local customs have maligned them as witches, dependants or objects of pity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn some traditions, widows are expected to remarry within the husband’s family, or even – in extreme cases – commit self-immolation – expectations not placed on men. Yet widowhood has also brought unexpected freedoms: financial, social and sexual autonomy denied to married women. In medieval Europe, widows owned property and ran businesses; in India’s Maratha courts, they wielded political influence long before married women could.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on sources from Ancient Egypt and Greece to Africa, the Americas and beyond, cultural historian Mineke Schipper explores widowhood as both oppression and liberation. \u003cem\u003eWidows\u003c\/em\u003e reveals one of feminism’s last great taboos, and the story of women the world has long refused to see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10 September 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePage count:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Height 145 mm; Width 225 mm; Thickness 32 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Saqi Books\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781908906694\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Mineke Schipper","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50251473125626,"sku":"9781908906694","price":13.03,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/9781908906694.jpg?v=1788838314","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/widows-9781908906694","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}