Gender, Power, and Embodiment in Southern Europe

Anthropology > Europe
English > Analysis
Gender and Sexuality
Gender and Sexuality > Sexual Politics

Examines alternatives to the structuralist approaches of the 1970s in the cultural anthropology of Southern Europe/the Mediterranean.

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Paper Summary:

Examines ethnographies and studies relating to gender and power in Southern Europe. Includes references to the following works: Mari Clark's "Variations on Themes of Male and Female: Reflections on Gender Bias in Fieldwork in Rural Greece"; David Gilmore's "Honor, Honesty, Shame: Male Status in Contemporary Andalusia" in "Honor and Shame and the Unity of the Mediterranean" ; Susanna Hoffman's film, "Kypseli: Women and Men Apart -- A Divided Reality"; Evthymios Papataxiarchis's "Friends of the Heart: Male Commensal Solidarity, Gender, and Kinship in Aegean Greece"; and Nadia Seremetakis's "The Memory of the Senses: Historical Perception, Commensal Exchange and Modernity".

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"Gender studies were the way forward in the 1970s, and studies of Southern Europe from this period analyze gender and society along strictly dichotomized lines. Films such as "Kypseli" (Hoffman et al.) epitomize this method of cultural analysis. Recent approaches to the study of gender by Clark, Gilmore, and Seremetakis, however, emphasize a more complex relationship between gender and its associated cultural domains."

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APA Citation:

Gender, Power, and Embodiment in Southern Europe (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 10, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Gender-Power-and-Embodiment-in-Southern-Europe/57216

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"Gender, Power, and Embodiment in Southern Europe" 15 January 2012. Web. 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Gender-Power-and-Embodiment-in-Southern-Europe/57216>