Contested Identities: Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691028591
• ISBN13: 9780691028590
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"