Halkias The Empty Cradle of Democracy

Sex, Abortion, and Nationalism in Modern Greece
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8604-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 430 Seiten

An ethnographic study that shows how similar national and cultural beliefs about gender, sexuality, and Greekness are the basis of both the public condemnation of abortion and its prevalence in Greece.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Halkias, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Abtreibung, Geburtenkontrolle: Soziale & Ethische Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgents xi

Introduction 1

Part 1. The Agoras of Agon

1. Setting the Stage: Athens, Greece, Fantasy, and History 19

2. Stage Left: Greek Women 35

3. Center Stage: What is Greece? 53

4. Stage Right: The Demografiko 77

Part 2. In Context, in Contests

5. In the Operating Room: On Cows, Greece, and the Smoking Fetus 89

6. Give Birth for Greece! Abortion and Nation in the Greek Press 113

Part 3. Sexing the Nation

7. Navigating the Night 135

8. The Impossible Dream: The Couple as Mother 207

9. Abortion, Pain, and Agency 235

10. Reprosexuality and the Modern Citizen Face the Specter of Turkey 291

11. A Critical Cartography of the Demografiko’s Greece 319

Epilogue: Theory and Policy 345

Notes 349

References 381

Über Autor(innen)

Alexandra Halkias is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Panteion University in Athens, Greece.