The funeral industry is a boys' club—and these women are crashing it with style.
For millennia, women have cared for the deceased: as death-bed vigils, as undertakers, as guardians of funeral rituals. Then everything changed. Since we no longer die at home, men took over. But today a growing number of women are making a comeback. For the good of the deceased?
Direction
Wolfensberger lets subjects breathe—no sensationalism, just truth.
Production
Access to intimate spaces most films never touch.
Director
Marc Wolfensberger
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Pre-20th century, 'layers out of the dead' were respected community women; the medicalization of death professionalized—and masculinized—the field.
The 'good of the deceased' framing deliberately mirrors feminist care ethics: what if funeral work isn't about sanitation but sustained relationship?
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