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.

Opis bibliograficzny
1. autor: Paxson, Heather, 1968-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Język:angielski
Wydane: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2004.
Dostęp online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppdxj
Spis treści:
  • 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.