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Author Paxson, Heather, 1968-

Title Making modern mothers : ethics and family planning in urban Greece / Heather Paxson
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages) : illustrations
Contents Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration; Prologue; 1 Realizing Nature; 2 Remaking Mothers From an Ethic of Service to an Ethic of Choice; 3 Rationalizing Sex: Family Planning and an Ethic of Well-Being; 4 Maternal Citizens: Demographics, Pronatalism, and Population Policy; 5 Technologies of Greek Motherhood; appendix 1. Total Fertility Rates, European Union Countries, 1960-2000; appendix 2. Legislation of the Greek State Pertaining to Gender Equality, Marriage, Family, and Reproduction; appendix 3. Birthrates, Greece, 1934-1999; Notes; References; Index
Summary Heather Paxson addresses the ambivalent perceptions of motherhood in Athens, as traditional views on femininity and childbearing are challenged by consumerism and imported biomedical family planning methods
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-319) and index
Notes English
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Subject Feminist anthropology -- Greece -- Athens
Women -- Greece -- Athens -- Social conditions
Motherhood -- Greece -- Athens
Birth control -- Greece -- Athens -- Public opinion
Public opinion -- Greece -- Athens
Family planning services.
Abortion.
Gender identity.
Mothers.
Family Planning Services
Abortion, Legal
Gender Identity
Mothers
Sexual Behavior
sex role.
mothers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Mothers
Gender identity
Family planning services
Abortion
Birth control -- Public opinion
Feminist anthropology
Manners and customs
Motherhood
Public opinion
Women -- Social conditions
Feministische filosofie.
Moederschap.
Geboorteregeling.
Publieke opinie.
SUBJECT Athens (Greece) -- Social life and customs
Subject Greece -- Athens
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003005046
ISBN 9780520937130
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