ISBN:
9780415310307
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (199 p)
Paralleltitel:
Print version For the Love of Women : Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town
DDC:
305.48/9664/09495
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
This extraordinary book exposes the strange world of the 〈I〉parea〈/I〉--a lesbian secret society based in a small-town bar outside Athens, whose members meet clandestinely
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Front Cover; For the Love of Women; CopyrightPage; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1.For the love of women; Documentations; Introducing the parea; Fieldworking; 2.Theoretical reflections; Gender andGreek ethnography; Homosexualities; Sexuality, sex and gender; The body; Towards a performative approach to gender; 3.Flirting with the 'other': ritualistic incorporationin the realm of the parea; About Chrisa andMaria; Interlude; About Bea andMaro; Conclusion; 4.Relationships; The idiosyncratic structures of kinship; Falling in love; tying the knot: flirtation and relationships in the parea; Epilogue
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
5.SeparationThe end; The end, part two: some more instances of collective mourning; The relationship has died. long live the relationship Or Let's be friends again; 6.Contextual identities; The case ofElena; The case ofCarolina; The case ofAphrodite - the case of Maro; The case ofEmily; 7.Different people, same places - different places, same people; The journey; Greece: from Kallipolis to Athens during the early1980s; Greece: Thessaloniki and Kallipolis in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s through the stories of Julia, Nena andSoula; The parea - a last note; 8.The long zeimbekiko; Notes
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BibliographyIndex
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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