Alexandra Halkias

The Empty Cradle of Democracy

Sex, Abortion, and Nationalism in Modern Greece

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2004
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780822333111
• ISBN-10: 0822333112
• Artikelnr.: 14430387

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Halkias

Inhaltsangabe

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