For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town
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
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For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town
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
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For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town

For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town

by Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town

For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town

by Elisabeth Kirtsoglou

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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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415310307
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 11/20/2003
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile: 1340L (what's this?)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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;
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