essay
Going out for coffee?: contesting the grounds of gendered pleasures in everyday sociability
contested identities : gender and kinship in modern greece • Princeton, N.J. • Published In 1991 • Pages: 180-202
By: Cowan, Jane K..
Abstract
This essay explores the ways in which gender is socially and culturally constructed in the town of Sohos in central Macedonia. In this community leisure pursuits, such as the everyday activity of coffee drinking, are both gender segregated and encoded with notions about gender differences. This study examines the various ways in which ideas about female sexualty, moral virtue, and autonomy are embedded in practices of sociability. Cowan then discusses how the appearance of a new sort of leisure establishment in the community, the KAFETERIA or coffee-bar, generates a new discursive space in which dominant definitions of female personhood are made explicit and sometimes contested (pp. 181-182).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2003
- Region
- Europe
- Sub Region
- Southeastern Europe
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field Date
- Feb. 1983-Feb. 1985
- Coverage Date
- 1983-1985
- Coverage Place
- Town of Sohos, central Macedonia, Greece
- Notes
- Jane K. Cowan
- For bibliographical references see source 83: [Loizos and Papataxiarchis]
- LCCN
- 90047780
- LCSH
- Greece