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1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-319) and 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. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Feminist anthropology -- Greece -- Athens.
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Feminist anthropology. |
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Greece -- Athens. |
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Women -- Greece -- Athens -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Social conditions. |
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Motherhood -- Greece -- Athens.
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Motherhood. |
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Birth control -- Greece -- Athens -- Public opinion.
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Birth control. |
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Public opinion. |
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Public opinion -- Greece -- Athens.
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Athens (Greece) -- Social life and customs.
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Electronic books.
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Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Motherhood. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Paxson, Heather, 1968- Making modern mothers. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520223713 0520238206 (DLC) 2003005046 (OCoLC)51817478 |
ISBN |
9780520937130 (electronic book) |
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0520937139 (electronic book) |
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1417522828 (electronic book) |
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9781417522828 (electronic book) |
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0520223713 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520223714 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520238206 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520238206 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1597347272 |
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9781597347273 |
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