Contested Identities. Gender and Kinship
β Peter Loizos, Evthymios Papataxiarchis
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π Princeton University Press
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Contested Identities: Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece
β Scribed by Peter Loizos (editor); Evthmios Papataxiarchis (editor)
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- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
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- 271
- Series
- Princeton Modern Greek Studies; 5
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- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
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.
β¦ Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Gender and Kinship in Marriage and Alternative Contexts
PART 1: Gender and Kinship in Married Life
Chapter 1. Gender, Kinship, and Religion: "Reconstructing" the Anthropology of Greece
Chapter 2. Cosmos and Gender in Village Greece
Chapter 3. Silence, Submission, and Subversion: Toward a Poetics of Womanhood
Chapter 4. The Resolution of Conflict through Song in Greek Ritual Therapy
Chapter 5. The Limits of Kinship
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
Chapter 8. Going Out for Coffee? Contesting the Grounds of Gendered Pleasures in Everyday Sociability
Chapter 9. Hunters and Hunted: Kamaki and the Ambiguities of Sexual Predation in a Greek Town
Chapter 10. Gender, Sexuality, and the Person in Greek Culture
Contributors
Literature Cited
Index
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