04801nam 2201105Ia 450 991078303780332120230207223445.097866127629181-59734-727-21-282-76291-50-520-93713-910.1525/9780520937130(CKB)1000000000004860(EBL)223957(OCoLC)475929472(SSID)ssj0000195905(PQKBManifestationID)11171984(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195905(PQKBWorkID)10141220(PQKB)11040361(StDuBDS)EDZ0000083921(MiAaPQ)EBC223957(OCoLC)55848086(MdBmJHUP)muse30710(DE-B1597)519365(DE-B1597)9780520937130(Au-PeEL)EBL223957(CaPaEBR)ebr10058556(CaONFJC)MIL276291(EXLCZ)99100000000000486020030304d2004 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrMaking modern mothers[electronic resource] ethics and family planning in urban greece /Heather PaxsonBerkeley University of California Pressc20041 online resource (353 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22371-3 0-520-23820-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --A Note on Transliteration --Prologue --1. Realizing Nature --2. Remaking Mothers --3. Rationalizing Sex --4. Maternal Citizens --5. Technologies of Greek Motherhood --Appendix 1. Total Fertility Rates, European Union Countries, 1960-2000 --Appendix 2. Legislation of the Greek State Pertaining to Gender Equality, Marriage, Family, and Reproduction --Appendix 3. Birthrates, Greece, 1934-1999 --Notes --References --IndexIn Greece, women speak of mothering as "within the nature" of a woman. But this durable association of motherhood with femininity exists in tension with the highest incidence of abortion and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. In this setting, how do women think of themselves as proper individuals, mothers, and Greek citizens? In this anthropological study of reproductive politics and ethics in Athens, Greece, Heather Paxson tracks the effects of increasing consumerism and imported biomedical family planning methods, showing how women's "nature" is being transformed to meet crosscutting claims of the contemporary world. Locating profound ambivalence in people's ethical evaluations of gender and fertility control, Paxson offers a far-reaching analysis of conflicting assumptions about what it takes to be a good mother and a good woman in modern Greece, where assertions of cultural tradition unfold against a backdrop of European Union integration, economic struggle, and national demographic anxiety over a falling birth rate.Feminist anthropologyGreeceAthensWomenGreeceAthensSocial conditionsMotherhoodGreeceAthensBirth controlGreeceAthensPublic opinionPublic opinionGreeceAthensAthens (Greece)Social life and customsabortion.anthropological study.anthropologists.athens.birth control.contemporary greece.cultural traditions.economic struggles.ethical issues.ethics.europe.european union.falling birth rate.family planning.femininity.fertility control.fertility rates.gender studies.greece.greek citizens.greek demographics.modern motherhood.motherhood.nonfiction.reproductive politics.social analysts.social cultural.urban setting.womens issues.womens roles.Feminist anthropologyWomenSocial conditions.MotherhoodBirth controlPublic opinion.Public opinion305.42/09495/12Paxson Heather1968-1498881MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783037803321Making modern mothers3866439UNINA