essay
Silence, submission, and subversion: toward a poetics of womanhood
contested identities : gender and kinship in modern greece • Princeton, N.J. • Published In 1991 • Pages: 70-97
By: Herzfeld, Michael.
Abstract
The ethnographic literature on Greece has depicted women as submissively silent or dangerously garrulous. In the public sphere women submit to male control of material resources, decisions as to the future of the family's children, and the family's public image. In this essay Herzfeld describes several ways in which women can register their resentment of male control and pretension through such means, for example, as intentional silence, and complex linguistic symbolism (e.g., verbal irony in conversation).
- 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
- no date
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Greece
- Notes
- Michael Herzfeld
- For bibliographical references see source 83: [Loizos and Papataxiarchis]
- LCCN
- 90047780
- LCSH
- Greece