Elisabeth Kirtsoglou

For the Love of Women

Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town

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Produktbeschreibung

This extraordinary book opens up the strange world of the 'parea' - a lesbian secret society based in a small-town bar outside Athens, whose members meet clandestinely to drink, dance and flirt. Though conducting intense sexual affairs under the noses of other customers, the parea's members - many of whom are married with children and have perfectly conventional lives by Greek standards - do not identify themselves as gay and have very negative images of homosexuality. Based entirely on fieldwork within the parea, For The Love of Women weaves stories of women's lives and relationships into an intriguing and perceptive analysis

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780415310314
• ISBN-10: 0415310318
• Artikelnr.: 22242782

Autorenporträt

Elisabeth Kirtsoglou is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Wales Lampeter.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 For the Love of Women
Chapter 2 Theoretical Reflections
Chapter 3 Flirting with the 'Other'
Chapter 4 Relationships
Chapter 5 Separation
Chapter 6 Contextual Identities
Chapter 7 Different People, Same Places - Different Places, Same People
Chapter 8 The Long Zeimbekiko