1st Edition
For the Love of Women Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town
By Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
Copyright 2004
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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;
Biography
Elisabeth Kirtsoglou is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Wales Lampeter.
"There is plenty of fascinating material for those interested in contemporary Greece and the complex, ambiguous shifting of sexual identity." - Sofka Zinovieff, Anthropology
