The shackles of modernity : women, property, and the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek state (1750-1850) / by Evdoxios Doxiadis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doxiadis, Evdoxios.

Series:

Cultural politics, socioaesthetics, beginnings ; 2.

Cultural politics, socioaesthetics, beginnings ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Greece--Social conditions--18th century.

Women.

Women--Greece--Social conditions--19th century.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Greece--History--18th century.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Greece--History--19th century.

Right of property--Greece--History--18th century.

Right of property.

Right of property--Greece--History--19th century.

History.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc.

Social conditions.

Greece.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 333 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Dept. of the Classics, Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Based on archival research, The Shackles of Modernity: Women, Property, and the Transition from the Otto-man Empire to the Greek State, 1750-1850 investigates the relationship between women and property, as well as their broader socioeconomic status in Greek societies in the century that culminated with the establishment of the Greek state. Drawing on legal documents in notarial archives from four different regions (Naxos, Mykonos, Athens, and Leonidio), this book focuses on important as pects of the rights of Greek women in the late eighteenth century, the decade-long Greek War of Independence, and the first decades of the Greek state. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Women's Lives and Wealth in Perspective l

2 Dowry, The Linchpin of a Woman's Wealth 35

3 The Role of Wills, Donations, and inheritance 79

4 Women in the Economy 135

5 Encounters with the Law 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-324) and index.

ISBN:

9780674055933

0674055934

OCLC:

759594289