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200 10$aMaking modern mothers$b[electronic resource] $eethics and family planning in urban greece /$fHeather Paxson
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2004
215   $a1 online resource (353 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311 0 $a0-520-22371-3 
311 0 $a0-520-23820-6 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tA Note on Transliteration --$tPrologue --$t1. Realizing Nature --$t2. Remaking Mothers --$t3. Rationalizing Sex --$t4. Maternal Citizens --$t5. Technologies of Greek Motherhood --$tAppendix 1. Total Fertility Rates, European Union Countries, 1960-2000 --$tAppendix 2. Legislation of the Greek State Pertaining to Gender Equality, Marriage, Family, and Reproduction --$tAppendix 3. Birthrates, Greece, 1934-1999 --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex
330   $aIn 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.
606   $aFeminist anthropology$zGreece$zAthens
606   $aWomen$zGreece$zAthens$xSocial conditions
606   $aMotherhood$zGreece$zAthens
606   $aBirth control$zGreece$zAthens$xPublic opinion
606   $aPublic opinion$zGreece$zAthens
607   $aAthens (Greece)$xSocial life and customs
610   $aabortion.
610   $aanthropological study.
610   $aanthropologists.
610   $aathens.
610   $abirth control.
610   $acontemporary greece.
610   $acultural traditions.
610   $aeconomic struggles.
610   $aethical issues.
610   $aethics.
610   $aeurope.
610   $aeuropean union.
610   $afalling birth rate.
610   $afamily planning.
610   $afemininity.
610   $afertility control.
610   $afertility rates.
610   $agender studies.
610   $agreece.
610   $agreek citizens.
610   $agreek demographics.
610   $amodern motherhood.
610   $amotherhood.
610   $anonfiction.
610   $areproductive politics.
610   $asocial analysts.
610   $asocial cultural.
610   $aurban setting.
610   $awomens issues.
610   $awomens roles.
615  0$aFeminist anthropology
615  0$aWomen$xSocial conditions.
615  0$aMotherhood
615  0$aBirth control$xPublic opinion.
615  0$aPublic opinion
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