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..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gratification and control of hunger
- Food service industries
- Nonalcoholic beverages
- Drinking establishments
- Labor and leisure
- Leisure time activities
- Gender status
- Visiting and hospitality
- Ethnosociology
- Gender roles and issues
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Greeks
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Feb. 1983-Feb. 1985
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1983-1985
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Town of Sohos, central Macedonia, Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jane K. Cowan
- For bibliographical references see source 83: [Loizos and Papataxiarchis]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90047780
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece