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Author Chalkia, Alexandra.

Title The empty cradle of democracy : sex, abortion, and nationalism in modern Greece / Alexandra Halkias
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 413 pages) : illustrations
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Introduction -- Part 1. The Agoras of Agon -- 1. Setting the Stage: Athens, Greece, Fantasy, and History -- 2. Stage Left: Greek Women -- 3. Center Stage: What Is Greece? -- 4. Stage Right: The Demografiko -- Part 2. In Context, in Contests -- 5. In the Operating Room: On Cows, Greece, and the Smoking Fetus -- 6. Give Birth for Greece! Abortion and Nation in the Greek Press -- Part 3. Sexing the Nation -- 7. Navigating the Night -- 8. The Impossible Dream: The Couple as Mother -- 9. Abortion, Pain, and Agency -- Part 4. Instigating Dialogues -- 10. Reprosexuality and the Modern Citizen Face the Specter of Turkey -- 11. A Critical Cartography of the Demografiko's Greece -- Epilogue: Theory and Policy
Summary An ethnographic study that shows how similar national and cultural beliefs about gender, sexuality, and Greekness are the basis of both the public condemnation of abortion and its prevalence in Greece
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-403) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Abortion -- Political aspects -- Greece
Abortion -- Social aspects -- Greece
Fertility, Human -- Political aspects -- Greece
Fertility, Human -- Social aspects -- Greece
Sex -- Political aspects -- Greece
Nationalism -- Greece
Abortion.
Fertility.
Social history.
Abortion, Induced
Fertility
Social Conditions
social history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Abortion & Birth Control.
Social history
Fertility
Abortion
Abortion -- Political aspects
Abortion -- Social aspects
Fertility, Human -- Political aspects
Fertility, Human -- Social aspects
Sex -- Political aspects
Nationalism
Seksualiteit.
Abortus provocatus.
Politieke aspecten.
Nationalisme.
SUBJECT Greece
Subject Greece
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822386049
0822386046
1283023911
9781283023917
9786613023919
6613023914