Gender and Power in Rural Greece /

Gender and Power in Rural Greece / / ed. by Jill Dubisch.

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 w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Boulay, Juliet Du,
Caraveli, Anna,
Dimen, Muriel,
Dubisch, Jill,
Friedl, Ernestine,
Herzfeld, Michael,
Hesser, Jana,
Kennedy, Robinette,
Pavlides, Eleftherios,
Salamone, S . D.,
Stanton, J . B.,
HerausgeberIn:
Dubisch, Jill,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]
©1986
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5309
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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