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Culture enters through the kitchenessay 1986 • Dubisch, Jill
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
In contrast to the general belief in Greece and elsewhere that pollution evolving from female sexuality and bodily processes are both indicators and reasons for women's subordination and infer...'Foreign chickens' and other outsidersarticle 1993 • Dubisch, Jill
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
Anthropological discussions of gender in the Mediterranean have tended to focus on two related issues: the control of female sexuality, particularly in terms of concepts of 'honor and shame,' ...Gender, kinship, and religionessay 1991 • Dubisch, Jill
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This document is a critique of various anthropological studies on gender in Greek society which are dominated by male or male-centered discourse. According to Dubisch these studies seem to ind...Introductionessay 1986 • Dubisch, Jill
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This paper serves as an introduction to a wide range of essays appearing in the Greece file which are related to topics of gender in rural Greece, from women's role and position in the domesti...Prefaceessay 1986 • Dubisch, Jill
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
In this study Dubisch describes her early days of fieldwork at the village of Falatados on the island of Tinos, and her initial impressions of women's status and gender roles on the island. Sh...Greek womenarticle 1983 • Dubisch, Jill
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This is a paper on women's role in religion. Dubisch argues that the sacred sphere should be regarded as a public realm and women's participation in religion outside of the home, a public acti...