Gender and Power in Rural Greece (Princeton Legacy Library, 5307)

Women in contemporary Greek society have been conventionally depicted as oppressed and socially inferior, circumscribed in behavior and segregated from the world of men. In 1967 Ernestine Friedl's classic article, "The Position of Women: Appearnce and Reality," argued that this view was overly simplified and that in Greek villages women in fact exercise power in household decisions and in determining the economic and marital future of their children. Since that article, feminists and anthropologists have continued to discuss the appearances of prestige vs. the realities of power. In this volume scholars form a variety of backgrounds return the debate to the setting of Greece for the first time since Friedl's work. Introduced by Jill Dubisch, the book contains eight original essays and a republication of the Friedl article. Among other topics, the essays examine changes now occurring in Greek gender roles, the ways women deal with oppression and act as mediators between the domestic sphere and life outside the home, and the extension of the language and symbolism of gender beyond male and female roles. The contributors are Juliet du Boulay, Anna Caraveli, Muriel Dimen, Jill Dubisch, Michael Herzfeld, Robinette Kennedy, Elftherios Pavlides and Jana Hesser, and S.D. Salamone and J.B. Stanton. Jill Dubisch is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. Originally published in 1986. The **Princeton Legacy Library** uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. The Position Of Women: Appearance And Reality / Ernestine Friedl -- Servants And Sentries: Women, Power, And Social Reproduction In Kriovrisi / Muriel Dimen -- Women's Roles And House Form And Decoration In Eressos, Greece / Eleftherios Pavlides And Jana Hesser -- Introsucing The Nikokyra: Ideality And Reality In Social Progress / S.d. Salamone And J.b. Stanton -- Women's Friendships On Crete: A Psychological Perspective / Robinette Kennedy -- Women: Images Of Their Nature And Destiny In Rural Greece / Juliet Du Boulay -- The Bitter Wounding: The Lament As Social Protest In Rural Greece / Anna Caraveli -- Culture Enters Through The Kitchen: Women, Food, And Social Boundaries In Rural Greece / Jill Dubisch -- Within And Without: The Category Of Female In The Ethnography Of Modern Greece / Michael Herzfeld. Edited By Jill Dubisch. Spine Title: Gender And Power In Rural Greece. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [239]-253. CONTENTS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION ONE. Introduction TWO. The Position of Women: Appearance and Reality THREE. Servants and Sentries: Women, Power, and Social Reproduction in Kriovrisi FOUR. Women's Roles and House Form and Decoration in Eressos, Greece FIVE. Introducing the Nikokyra: Ideality and Reality in Social Process SIX. Women's Friendships on Crete: A Psychological Perspective SEVEN. Women–Images of Their Nature and Destiny in Rural Greece EIGHT. The Bitter Wounding: The Lament as Social Protest in Rural Greece NINE. Culture Enters through the Kitchen: Women, Food, and Social Boundaries in Rural Greece TEN. Within and Without: The Category of "Female" in the Ethnography of Modern Greece CONTRIBUTORS LITERATURE CITED INDEX The book description for the previously published "Gender and Power in Rural Greece" is not yet available.