Contested Identities: Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece (Princeton Modern Greek Studies, 37)

"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's description Introduction. Gender And Kinship In Marriage And Alternative Contexts / Peter Loizos And Evthymios Papataxiarchis -- Pt.1. Gender And Kinship In Married Life. Gender, Kinship, And Religion : Reconstructing The Anthropology Of Greece / Jill Dubisch -- Cosmos And Gender In Village Greece / Juliet Du Boulay -- Silence, Submission, And Subversion : Toward A Poetics Of Womanhood / Michael Herzfeld -- The Resolution Of Conflict Through Song In Greek Ritual Therapy / Loring M. Danforth -- The Limits Of Kinship / Roger Just -- (cont.) Pt.2. Gender And Kinship Outside Marriage. Sisters In Christ : Metaphors Of Kinship Among Greek Nuns / A. Marina Iossifides -- Friends Of The Heart : Male Commensal Solidarity, Gender, And Kinship In Aegean Greece / Evthymios Papataxiarchis -- Going Out For Coffee? : Contesting The Grounds Of Gendered Pleasures In Everyday Sociability / Jane K. Cowan -- Hunters And Hunted : Kamaki And The Ambiguities Of Sexual Predation In A Greek Town / Sofka Zinovieff -- Gender, Sexuality, And The Person In Greek Culture / Peter Loizos And Evthymios Papataxiarchis. Edited By Peter Loizos And Evthymios Papataxiarchis. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. BOTH GENDER STUDIES and feminism have been a powerful force within anthropology in the last decade, and the anthropological study of gender has now received a more or less legitimate place within the field.