essay
Servants and sentries: women, power, and social reproduction in Kriovrisi
gender & power in rural greece • Princeton, N.J. • Published In 1986 • Pages: 53-67
By: Dimen, Muriel.
Abstract
This is a theoretical work that examines the function that the household performs for the public world of work and power. Through an analysis of the concepts of private/public hegemony and social reproduction the author attempts to show how women in the village of Kriovrisi both resist and capitulate to certain forces from the public domain that threaten to fragment both the village and the households within it. These forces are the centifugal power of the economy and the centralizing power of the state which create alienation and anomie. As the result of trying to mitigate the effects of these forces on others, women themselves develop ambivalent feelings about their work, experience, and selfhood (p. 53).
- 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
- 1967-1968
- Coverage Date
- 1967-1968
- Coverage Place
- village of Kriovrisi, Province of Epiros, Prefecture of Ioannina, Greece
- Notes
- Muriel Dimen
- For bibliographical references see source 31: [Dubisch]
- LCCN
- 86003183
- LCSH
- Greece