Contested identities : gender and kinship in modern Greece / edited by Peter Loizos and Evthymios Papataxiarchis.
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TextSeries: Princeton modern Greek studiesPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: viii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0691094608
- 9780691094601
- 0691028591
- 9780691028590
- 306.8309495 20
- GN585.G85 C66 1991
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.8309495 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A418303B |
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| 306.830899442 MET New growth from old : the Whānau in the modern world / | 306.830899442 PEN Whanau identity and whānau development are interdependent : an experience of whanau / | 306.830899442 PEN Whanau identity and whānau development are interdependent : an experience of whanau / | 306.8309495 CON Contested identities : gender and kinship in modern Greece / | 306.83096 AFR African systems of kinship and marriage / | 306.83099592 NAS Matriliny and modernisation : the Nagovisi of South Bougainville / | 306.830996 GAI Kinship to kingship : gender hierarchy and state formation in the Tongan Islands / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index.
"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."--Publisher description.
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