Immigrant Women In Athens

Author : Rebecca Futo Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317814703
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigrant Women in Athens written by Rebecca Futo Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the women whose names are known to history from Classical Athens were metics or immigrants, linked in the literature with assumptions of being ‘sexually exploitable.’ Despite recent scholarship on women in Athens beyond notions of the ‘citizen wife’ and the ‘common prostitute,’ the scholarship on women, both citizen and foreign, is focused almost exclusively on women in the reproductive and sexual economy of the city. This book examines the position of metic women in Classical Athens, to understand the social and economic role of metic women in the city, beyond the sexual labor market. This book contributes to two important aspects of the history of life in 5th century Athens: it explores our knowledge of metics, a little-researched group, and contributes to the study if women in antiquity, which has traditionally divided women socially between citizen-wives and everyone else. This tradition has wrongly situated metic women, because they could not legally be wives, as some variety of whores. Author Rebecca Kennedy critiques the traditional approach to the study of women through an examination of primary literature on non-citizen women in the Classical period. She then constructs new approaches to the study of metic women in Classical Athens that fit the evidence and open up further paths for exploration. This leading-edge volume advances the study of women beyond their sexual status and breaks down the ideological constraints that both Victorians and feminist scholars reacting to them have historically relied upon throughout the study of women in antiquity.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and International Migration written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Demetra Kasimis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107052432
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy written by Demetra Kasimis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that immigration politics is a central - but overlooked - object of inquiry in the democratic thought of classical Athens. Thinkers criticized democracy's strategic investments in nativism, the shifting boundaries of citizenship, and the precarious membership that a blood-based order effects for those eligible and ineligible to claim it.

Author : Henry Pratt Fairchild
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Immigration to the United States written by Henry Pratt Fairchild and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kristine Leach
Publisher : Austin & Winfield Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of a Common Ground written by Kristine Leach and published by Austin & Winfield Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the years, millions of people from around the world left their homes in search of a better life in the United States of America. Most studies of this life-altering experience have focused on its meaning and effects for men. Walking Common Ground reveals the surprising contrasts which show up in this story when the focus shifts to women." "Comparing women's accounts of nineteenth century immigration taken from letters, diaries and autobiographies with extensive in-depths interviews of twentieth century women from every corner of the globe, Kristine Leach uncovers an unexpected commonality of experience for immigrant women, in spite of enormous differences in time, place and circumstance. Going beyond the recitation of immigration statistics, Leach explores the problems of child rearing in a culture with different standards of behavior, the adjustments to new freedoms and responsibilities and the orientation to new types of housing, food, customs and morals. She develops her account through the words and life of the women under study, placing her theoretical account in its concrete reality."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Esther Eidinow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199562601
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Envy, Poison, and Death written by Esther Eidinow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores three trials conducted in Athens in the fourth century BCE; the defendants were all women charged with undertaking ritual activities, but much of the evidence remains a mystery. The author reveals how these trials provide a vivid glimpse of the socio-political environment of Athens during the early-mid fourth century BCE.

Author : R. King
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0333982525
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eldorado or Fortress? Migration in Southern Europe written by R. King and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-10-20 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Europe struggles to control immigration, the EU's southern flank is perceived as the weak flank of 'Fortress Europe'. This book examines the many facets of Southern Europe's new immigration: the diverse roles played by immigrants in the labour market, issues of social exclusion and wider strategic concerns of security and geopolitics.

Author : Glenda Tibe Bonifacio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940072831X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism and Migration written by Glenda Tibe Bonifacio and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism and Migration: Cross-Cultural Engagements is a rich, original, and diverse collection on the intersections of feminism and migration in western and non-western contexts. This book explores the question: does migration empower women? Through wide-ranging topics on theorizing feminism in migration, contesting identities and agency, resistance and social justice, and religion for change, well-known and emerging scholars provide in-depth analysis of how social, cultural, political, and economic forces shape new modalities and perspectives among women upon migration. It highlights the centrality of the various meanings and interpretations of feminism(s) in the lives of immigrant and migrant women in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Greece, Japan, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Papua New Guinea, Spain, and the United States. The well-researched chapters explore the ways in which feminism and migration across cultures relate to women’s experiences in host societies --- as women, wives, mothers, exiles, nuns, and workers---and the avenues of interactions for change. Cross-cultural engagements point to the convergence and even disjunctures between (im)migrant and non-immigrant women that remain unrecognized in contemporary mainstream discourses on migration and feminism.

Author : Geoffrey W. Bakewell
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299291731
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aeschylus’s Suppliant Women written by Geoffrey W. Bakewell and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Athenians of the classical era became increasingly aware of their own collective identity, they sought to define themselves and exclude others. They created a formal legal status to designate the free noncitizens living among them, calling them metics and calling their status metoikia. When Aeschylus dramatized the mythical flight of the Danaids from Egypt in his play Suppliant Women, he did so in light of his own time and place. Throughout the play, directly and indirectly, he casts the newcomers as metics and their stay in Greece as metoikia. Bakewell maps the manifold anxieties that metics created in classical Athens, showing that although citizens benefited from the many immigrants in their midst, they also feared the effects of immigration in political, sexual, and economic realms. Bakewell finds metoikia was a deeply flawed solution to the problem of large-scale immigration.

Author : Deirdre Cooper Owens
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820351342
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Bondage written by Deirdre Cooper Owens and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied these women their full humanity yet valued them as “medical superbodies” highly suited for medical experimentation. In Medical Bondage, Cooper Owens examines a wide range of scientific literature and less formal communications in which gynecologists created and disseminated medical fictions about their patients, such as their belief that black enslaved women could withstand pain better than white “ladies.” Even as they were advancing medicine, these doctors were legitimizing, for decades to come, groundless theories related to whiteness and blackness, men and women, and the inferiority of other races or nationalities. Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how nineteenth-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals. It also retells the story of black enslaved women and of Irish immigrant women from the perspective of these exploited groups and thus restores for us a picture of their lives.