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Making modern mothers : ethics and family planning in urban greece / Heather Paxson

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004

Online-Ressource (xvi, 335 p) : ill

Englisch

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration; Prologue: Varnava Square; 1. Realizing Nature; 2. Remaking Mothers: From an Ethic of Service to an Ethic of Choice; 3. Rationalizing Sex: Family Planning and an Ethic of Well-Being; 4. Maternal Citizens: Demographics, Pronatalism, and Population Policy; 5. Technologies of Greek Motherhood; Appendix 1: Total Fertility Rates, European Union Countries, 1960-2000; Appendix 2: Legislation of the Greek State Pertaining to Gender Equality, Marriage, Family, and Reproduction; Appendix 3: Birthrates, Greece, 1934-1999

NotesReferences; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version: Making Modern Mothers : Ethics and Family Planning in Urban Greece

0-520-23820-6 ; 0-520-22371-3

978-0-520-23820-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

GN585.G85

305.42/09495/12     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Athens (Greece) -- Social life and customs ; Public opinion -- Greece -- Athens ; Motherhood -- Greece -- Athens ; Birth control -- Greece -- Athens -- Public opinion ; Feminist anthropology -- Greece -- Athens ; Women -- Greece -- Athens -- Social conditions

Athens (Greece) ; Social life and customs ; Birth control ; Greece ; Athens ; Public opinion ; Feminist anthropology ; Greece ; Athens ; Motherhood ; Greece ; Athens ; Public opinion ; Greece ; Athens ; Women ; Greece ; Athens ; Social conditions ; Electronic books

In Greece, women speak of mothering as "within the nature" of a woman. But this durable association of motherhood with femininity exists in tension with the highest incidence of abortion and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. In this setting, how do women think of themselves as proper individuals, mothers, and Greek citizens? In this anthropological study of reproductive politics and ethics in Athens, Greece, Heather Paxson tracks the effects of increasing consumerism and imported biomedical family planning methods, showing how women's "nature" is being transformed to meet crosscutti