1 option
Contested Identities : Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece / Evthmios Papataxiarchis, Peter Loizos.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Princeton modern Greek studies.
- Princeton Modern Greek Studies ; 37
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Greece--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Sex role--Greece.
- Sex role.
- Friendship--Greece.
- Friendship.
- Marriage--Greece.
- Marriage.
- Kinship--Greece.
- Kinship.
- Greece--Social life and customs.
- Greece.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- In this collection leading anthropologists provide a comprehensive yet highly nuanced view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society based on kinship ties. Exploring the ways in which sexual identity is constructed, these authors discuss, for example, how going out for coffee embodies dominant ideas about female sexuality, moral virtue, and autonomy; why men in a Lesbos village maintain elaborate friendships with nonfamily members while the women do not; why young housewives often participate in conflict-resolution rituals; and how the dominant role of mature married householders is challenged by unmarried persons who emphasize spontaneity and personal autonomy. This collection demonstrates that kinship and gender identities in Greece are not unitary and fixed: kinship is organized in several highly specific forms, and gender identities are plural, competing, antagonistic, and are continually being redefined by contexts and social change.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Loizos, Peter / Papataxiarchis, Evthymios
- PART 1: Gender and Kinship in Married Life
- Chapter 1. Gender, Kinship, and Religion: "Reconstructing" the Anthropology of Greece / Dubisch, Jill
- Chapter 2. Cosmos and Gender in Village Greece / Boulay, ]uliet du
- Chapter 3. Silence, Submission, and Subversion: Toward a Poetics of Womanhood / Herzfeld, Michael
- Chapter 4. The Resolution of Conflict through Song in Greek Ritual Therapy / Danforth, Loring M.
- Chapter 5. The Limits of Kinship / Just, Roger
- PART II: Gender and Kinship outside Marriage
- Chapter 6. Sisters in Christ: Metaphors of Kinship among Greek Nuns
- Chapter 7. Friends of the Heart: Male Commensal Solidarity, Gender, and Kinship in Aegean Greece / Papataxiarchis, Evthymios
- Chapter 8. Going Out for Coffee? Contesting the Grounds of Gendered Pleasures in Everyday Sociability / Cowan, Jane K.
- Chapter 9. Hunters and Hunted: Kamaki and the Ambiguities of Sexual Predation in a Greek Town / Zinovieff, Sofka
- Chapter 10. Gender, Sexuality, and the Person in Greek Culture / Loizos, Peter / Papataxiarchis, Evthymios
- Contributors
- Literature Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-254) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9781400884384
- 1400884381
- OCLC:
- 966821830
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.