Making modern mothers [[electronic resource] ] : ethics and family planning in urban greece / / Heather Paxson

• Autore: Paxson Heather <1968->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.42/09495/12
• Soggetto topico: Feminist anthropology - Greece - Athens; Women - Greece - Athens - Social conditions; Motherhood - Greece - Athens; Birth control - Greece - Athens - Public opinion; Public opinion - Greece - Athens
• Soggetto geografico: Athens (Greece) Social life and customs
• Soggetto non controllato: abortion; 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
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Making modern mothers
• ISBN: 9786612762918; 1-59734-727-2; 1-282-76291-5; 0-520-93713-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783037803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II