Women were the deathcare workers until medicalization and professionalism driven by commercialism deleted them from the field in the 1800’s. Women were never too weak for blood and death, they were erased once there was money to be made. 🧵
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During the Civil War men had to handle the dead on the field and embalming allowed bodies to return home for proper burial. The rise in embalming created the money earning professions known as undertaker and funeral director.
Generations of women were watchers, layers, and shrouders who bore the responsibility of caring for the dying and then bathing, dressing, laying out, and shrouding the body.
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