The Making Of The Modern Greek Family

Author : Paul Sant Cassia,Constantina Bada
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0521400813

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The Making of the Modern Greek Family by Paul Sant Cassia,Constantina Bada Pdf

This 1991 study deals with a specific set of institutions in nineteenth-century Athens. Relying on matrimonial contracts, travellers' accounts, memoirs and popular literature, the authors show how distinctive forms of marriage, kinship and property transmission evolved in Athens in the nineteenth century. These forms then became a feature of wider Greek society which continued into the twentieth century. Greece was the first post-colonial modern nation state in Europe whose national identity was created largely by peasants who had migrated to the city. As Athenian society became less agrarian, a new mercantile group superseded and incorporated previous elites and went on to dominate and control the new resources of the nation state. Such groups developed their own, more mobile, systems of property transmission, mostly in response to external pressures of a political and economic character. This is a persuasive piece of detective work which has advanced our knowledge of modern Greece. It is a model for scholarship on the development of family and other 'intimate' ideologies where nation states encroach upon local consciousness.

Author : P. Sant Cassia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Making of the Modern Greek Family by P. Sant Cassia Pdf

Author : Heather Paxson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520937139

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Making Modern Mothers by Heather Paxson Pdf

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 crosscutting claims of the contemporary world. Locating profound ambivalence in people's ethical evaluations of gender and fertility control, Paxson offers a far-reaching analysis of conflicting assumptions about what it takes to be a good mother and a good woman in modern Greece, where assertions of cultural tradition unfold against a backdrop of European Union integration, economic struggle, and national demographic anxiety over a falling birth rate.

Author : Thomas W. Gallant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472567581

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Modern Greece by Thomas W. Gallant Pdf

Modern Greece is an updated and enhanced edition of a classic survey of Greek history since the beginning of the 19th century. Giving equal weighting to social, political and diplomatic aspects, it offers detailed coverage of the formation of the Greek nation state, the global Greek diaspora, the country's relationships with Europe and the United States and a range of other topics, including women, rural areas, nationalism and the Civil War, woven together in a nuanced and highly readable narrative. Fresh material and new pedagogical features have been added throughout, most notably: - new chapters on 19th-century nationalism and 'Boom to Bust in the Age of Globalization, 1989-2013'; - greater discussion of the late Ottoman context, Greeks outside of Greece and the international background to the Greek state formation; - revisions to take account of recent scholarship, Greekscholarship ; - new timelines, maps, illustrations, charts, figures and primary source boxes; - an updated further reading section and bibliography. Modern Greece is a crucial text for anyone looking to understand the complex history of this now troubled nation and its place in the Balkans, Europe and the modern globalized world.

Author : Annette Caroline Cremer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000204209

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Gender, Law and Material Culture by Annette Caroline Cremer Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume discusses the division of the early modern material world into the important legal, economic, and personal categories of mobile and immobile property, possession, and the rights to usufruct. The chapters describe and compare different modes of acquisition and intergenerational transfer via law and custom. The varying perspectives, including cultural history, legal history, social and economic history, philosophy, and law, allow for a more nuanced understanding of the links between the movability of an object and the gender of the person who owned, possessed, or used it. Case studies and examples come from a wide geographical range, including Norway, England, Scotland, the Holy Roman Empire, Italy, Tyrol, the Ottoman Empire, Greece, Romania, and the European colonies in Brazil and Jamaica. By covering both urban and rural areas and exploring all social groups, from ruling elites to the lower strata of society, the chapters offer fresh insight into the division of mobile and immobile property that socially and economically posed disadvantages for women. By exploring a broad scope of topics, including landownership, marriage contracts, slaveholding, and the dowry, this book is an essential resource for both researchers and students of women’s history, social and economic history, and material culture.

Author : Constanze Guthenke
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191528309

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Placing Modern Greece by Constanze Guthenke Pdf

Placing Modern Greece is about literary representations of Greece in the period of Romanticism, encompassing the time in the 1820s when it became a territorial and political reality as a nation state. Constanze Guthenke claims that the imagining of and attitude towards Greece was shaped by a fascination with the material, and by the highly conceptualized tension between the ideal on the one hand, and the material on the other. Her study focuses on nature and landscape imagery as vehicles of representation, on their specific inner workings, and on their dynamic, which conditions how and whether Greece as a modern entity in the making can be represented at all. Offering readings from German and contemporaneous Greek authors, Guthenke supplies a commentary on the translation and crossings of representational models and their limits.

Author : Alexander Grammatikos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319904405

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British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation by Alexander Grammatikos Pdf

British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation makes an original contribution to the field of British Romantic Hellenism (and Romanticism more broadly) by emphasizing the diversity of Romantic-era writers’ attitudes towards, and portrayals of, Modern Greece. Whereas, traditionally, studies of British Romantic Hellenism have predominantly focused on Europe’s preoccupation with an idealized Ancient Greece, this study emphasizes the nuanced and complex nature of British Romantic writers’ engagements with Modern Greece. Specifically, the book emphasizes the ways that early nineteenth-century British literature about contemporary Greece helped to strengthen British-Greek intercultural relations and, ultimately, to situate Greece within a European sphere of influence.

Author : Marios Psaras
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319403106

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The Queer Greek Weird Wave by Marios Psaras Pdf

Cinema might not be able to help heal a broken nation but it can definitely help revisit a nation’s past, reframe its present and re-imagine its future. This is the first book-length study on what has become an internationally acclaimed strand in contemporary Greek cinema. Psaras examines how this particular trend can be thought of as an integral aesthetic response to the infamous Greek crisis, illuminating its fundamental ideological aspects by means of a queer critique of national politics. Drawing on a wide range of methodological approaches from queer theory, film theory, ethical philosophy and psychoanalysis, this volume sheds light on the way the Greek Weird Wave challenges, deconstructs and re-imagines traditional notions of Greekness, the Greek nation and the Greek patriarchal family. This is achieved through close textual analysis of the subversive thematics and idiosyncratic forms of six films made by some of the best-known and most celebrated contemporary Greek directors including Dogtooth (2009) and Alps (2011) by Yorgos Lanthimos, Strella (2009) by Panos H. Koutras, and Attenberg (2010) by Athina-Rachel Tsangaris.

Author : Beryl Rawson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405187671

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A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Beryl Rawson Pdf

A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose stimulating questions about future development in the study of families. Provides up-to-date research on family structure from archaeology, art, social, cultural, and economic history Includes contributions from established and rising international scholars Features illustrations of families, children, slaves, and ritual life, along with maps and diagrams of sites and dwellings Honorable Mention for 2011 Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of American Publishers

Author : Gunther Peck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521778190

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Reinventing Free Labor by Gunther Peck Pdf

This 2000 study is of the history of the padrone, a mafia-like immigrant boss who allegedly enslaved his compatriots.

Author : Giannēs Koliopoulos,Thanos Veremēs
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0814747671

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Greece by Giannēs Koliopoulos,Thanos Veremēs Pdf

"...Meticulously researched...Thoroughly documented with copious footnotes, a shronology, and extensive bibliography, this work is recommended for academic libraries." —Library Journal Focusing on questions that seek to illuminate vital aspects of the Greek phenomenon, this modern history of Greece is organized around themes such as politics, institutions, society, ideology, foreign policy, geography, and culture. Making clear their predilection for the principles that inspired the founding fathers of the Greek state, Koliopoulos and Veremis juxtapose these principles to contemporary practices, and outline the resulting tensions in Greek society as it enters the new millenium. Challenging established notions and stereotypes that have disfigured Greek history, Greece: A Modern Sequel is meant to encourage a fresh look at the country and its people. In the process, a portrait of a new Greece emerges: modern, diverse, and strong.

Author : Nickie Charles,Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134834297

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Practising Feminism by Nickie Charles,Felicia Hughes-Freeland Pdf

In Practising Feminism, contributors drawn from a range of backgrounds in anthropology, sociology and social psychology, explore different ways of practising feminism and their effect on gendered identities. The contributors examine feminism and gender identities in different cultures, feminism as a politics of transformation, the call for recognition of heterosexuality as a politicised identity, the practical role of feminism in nationalist struggles, power relations and gender differences, and the methodological implications of feminist practices. They all discuss identity, difference and power and their importance to feminist political practice. Practising Feminism is an important contribution to the neglected middle ground between post-modern deconstructions of difference and identity, and continued feminist concern with grounded power relations and the validity of experience.

Author : James Georgas,John W. Berry,Fons J. R. van de Vijver,Çigdem Kagitçibasi,Ype H. Poortinga
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139457644

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Families Across Cultures by James Georgas,John W. Berry,Fons J. R. van de Vijver,Çigdem Kagitçibasi,Ype H. Poortinga Pdf

Contemporary trends such as increased one-parent families, high divorce rates, second marriages and homosexual partnerships have all contributed to variations in the traditional family structure. But to what degree has the function of the family changed and how have these changes affected family roles in cultures throughout the world? This book attempts to answer these questions through a psychological study of families in thirty nations, carefully selected to present a diverse cultural mix. The study utilises both cross-cultural and indigenous perspectives to analyse variables including family networks, family roles, emotional bonds, personality traits, self-construal, and 'family portraits' in which the authors address common core themes of the family as they apply to their native countries. From the introductory history of the study of the family to the concluding indigenous psychological analysis of the family, this book is a source for students and researchers in psychology, sociology and anthropology.

Author : Graham Speake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1941 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135942069

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Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition by Graham Speake Pdf

Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.

Author : Lucien J. Frary
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Modern Europ
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198733775

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Russia and the Making of Modern Greek Identity, 1821-1844 by Lucien J. Frary Pdf

Lucien J. Frary explores how Russian politics and religion were instrumental in the shaping of modern Greece, providing a broad understanding of 19th-century Russian foreign policy and religious enterprise, as well as the relationship between religion, nationalism, and state-building.