Making modern mothers : ethics and family planning in urban Greece /

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.

Bibliografski detalji
Glavni autor: Paxson, Heather, 1968-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2004.
Online pristup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppdxj
Sadržaj:
  • 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.