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Women and Nationalism in the Making of Modern Greece: The Founding of the Kingdom to the Greco-Turkish War
This pioneering book reveals how nationalism in Ninteenth-century Greece helped women to develop an alternative vision of female politics, history, and citizenship. Shedding new light on women's ideas and beliefs the author brings to life the story of the ideas that formed our societies and individual identities.
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Women and Nationalism in the Making of Modern Greece: The Founding of the Kingdom to the Greco-Turkish War
This pioneering book reveals how nationalism in Ninteenth-century Greece helped women to develop an alternative vision of female politics, history, and citizenship. Shedding new light on women's ideas and beliefs the author brings to life the story of the ideas that formed our societies and individual identities.
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Women and Nationalism in the Making of Modern Greece: The Founding of the Kingdom to the Greco-Turkish War

Women and Nationalism in the Making of Modern Greece: The Founding of the Kingdom to the Greco-Turkish War

by Demetra Tzanaki
Women and Nationalism in the Making of Modern Greece: The Founding of the Kingdom to the Greco-Turkish War

Women and Nationalism in the Making of Modern Greece: The Founding of the Kingdom to the Greco-Turkish War

by Demetra Tzanaki

Overview

This pioneering book reveals how nationalism in Ninteenth-century Greece helped women to develop an alternative vision of female politics, history, and citizenship. Shedding new light on women's ideas and beliefs the author brings to life the story of the ideas that formed our societies and individual identities.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230545465
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 05/26/2009
Series: St Antony's Series
Edition description: 2009
Pages: 234
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

DEMETRA TZANAKI studied political studies and Balkan history at the University of Athens, Greece, the University of London, UK and the University of Oxford, UK. She currently teaches at the University of Athens and is the author of The History of Roles and Attitudes in Nineteenth Century Greece.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Antithesis between History and Recorded History PART I: GENDER AND THE NATION (1832-1869) King of the Greeks or King of the Hellenes? Morality and Female Authority The Prototype Kingdom. What Kind of Woman? PART II: THE EMERGENCE OF A FEMALE CONSCIOUSNESS: WOMEN AND THE NATION (1870-1880) The Choice of Terms Women and Hellenismos . The Publication of Evridiki The Cult of Domesticity and the World Outside Home Lessons of Life PART III: GENDER AND THE STATE (1880-1897) The Civic Religion A Kind of Power. Women and Politics: The Publication of Ephimeris ton Kyrion (1887-1897) Conclusion Bibliography Index
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