The empty cradle of democracy : sex, abortion, and nationalism in modern Greece / Alexandra Halkias.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chalkia, Alexandra.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abortion--Political aspects--Greece.

Abortion.

Abortion--Social aspects--Greece.

Fertility, Human--Political aspects--Greece.

Fertility, Human.

Fertility, Human--Social aspects--Greece.

Sex--Political aspects--Greece.

Sex.

Nationalism--Greece.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (431 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An ethnographic study that shows how similar national and cultural beliefs about gender, sexuality, and Greekness are the basis of both the public condemnation of abortion and its prevalence in Greece.

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1. The Agoras of Agon

1. Setting the Stage: Athens, Greece, Fantasy, and History

2. Stage Left: Greek Women

3. Center Stage: What Is Greece?

4. Stage Right: The Demografiko

Part 2. In Context, in Contests

5. In the Operating Room: On Cows, Greece, and the Smoking Fetus

6. Give Birth for Greece! Abortion and Nation in the Greek Press

Part 3. Sexing the Nation

7. Navigating the Night

8. The Impossible Dream: The Couple as Mother

9. Abortion, Pain, and Agency

Part 4. Instigating Dialogues

10. Reprosexuality and the Modern Citizen Face the Specter of Turkey

11. A Critical Cartography of the Demografiko's Greece

Epilogue: Theory and Policy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-403) and index.

ISBN:

9786613023919

9781283023917

1283023911

9780822386049

0822386046

OCLC:

651953723