TY  - BOOK
AU  - Loizos,Peter
AU  - Papataxiarchēs,E.
TI  - Contested identities: gender and kinship in modern Greece 
T2  - Princeton modern Greek studies
SN  - 0691094608
AV  - GN585.G85 C66 1991
U1  - 306.8309495 20
PY  - 1991///]
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Greece
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index
N2  - "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
ER  -