Women, Gender, and Diasporic Lives
Labor, Community, and Identity in Greek Migrations
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Lexington Books
Published:16th Apr '09
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Women, Gender, and Diasporic Lives is an interdisciplinary collection on women and gender in Greek diaspora communities. Using a variety of methodologies, including archival research, ethnography, participant observation, and quantitative analysis, the eleven contributors present in-depth and highly nuanced feminist analyses of diverse aspects of Greek diasporic experiences. The volume's geographical scope spans four continents (North America, Europe, Australia, Africa) and seven countries (USA, Canada, Germany, Greece, Australia, Egypt, Ethiopia), and touches on both contemporary and historical diasporic experiences. Using the broad themes of women's labor, community activity, and identity as their organizing concept, the contributors intersect these issues with the concerns of ethnicity, class, generation,and masculinity. The country-specific case studies reveal women's intentionality and agency in labor, in building community institutions, and in negotiating and re-defining their identities. The broac range of contributor backgrounds make this book a valuable resource for anyone interested in gender, diaspora, labor, or modern Greek studies.
The reader who associates “home” and “identity” with single nations will be fascinated by this gendered analysis of Greek families and communities around the world. The section on gender and labor and the section on gender and identity are must-reads for feminist scholars, regardless of their geographic fields. -- Donna Gabaccia, Professor of History and Director, Immigration History Research Center
In Women, Gender, and Diasporic Lives: Labor, Community, and Identity in Greek Migrations, editor Evangelia Tastsoglou has collected 11 essays that offer insights into emerging issues relating to women’s lives in the Greek diaspora and the ways in which these inevitably influence men’s diasporic experience....The book’s importance lies in the fact that it is the first collection dedicated solely to women’s experiences, a subject which previous books on the Greek diaspora have touched upon only tangentially. This collection, which introduces a series dealing with women in the Greek diaspora, starts to fill important research gaps. It is especially the variety of issues discussed, ranging from media consumerism, motherhood, entrepreneurship and regionalism to return, which makes this book an important contribution to the study of (Greek) diaspora, Women’s Studies, and certainly (Modern) Greek Studies. Women, Gender, and Diasporic Lives: Labor, Community, and Identity in Greek Migrations deserves to become a standard work in the study of women’s diaspora to which it brings new and exciting questions and insights. * Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies *
ISBN: 9780739125410
Dimensions: 239mm x 162mm x 24mm
Weight: 526g
264 pages