Contested Identities - Couverture souple

 
9780691028590: Contested Identities
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0691028591 ISBN 13 : 9780691028590
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1991

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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691028591
ISBN 13 
9780691028590
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Éditeur
Loizos Peter
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780691094601: Contested Identities: Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0691094608 ISBN 13 :  9780691094601
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1991
Couverture rigide