For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town
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This extraordinary book opens up the strange world of the 'parea' - a lesbian secret society based in a small-town bar outside Athens, whose members meet clandestinely to drink, dance and flirt. Though conducting intense sexual affairs under the noses of other customers, the parea's members - many of whom are married with children and have perfectly conventional lives by Greek standards - do not identify themselves as gay and have very negative images of homosexuality. Based entirely on fieldwork within the parea, For The Love of Women weaves stories of women's lives and relationships into an intriguing and perceptive analysis
Acknowledgements1For the love of women1Documentation1Introducing the parea4Fieldworking152Theoretical reflections20Gender and Greek ethnography20Homosexualities24Sexuality, sex and gender27The body29Towards a performative approach to gender333Flirting with the 'other': ritualistic incorporation in the realm of the parea39About Chrisa and Maria42Interlude54About Bea and Maro55Conclusion604Relationships62The idiosyncratic structures of kinship63Falling in love; tying the knot: flirtation and relationships in the parea71Epilogue865Separation88The end90The end, part two: some more instances of collective mourning95The relationship has died, Long live the relationship Or Let's be friends again976Contextual identities102The case of Elena104The case of Carolina111The case of Aphrodite - the case of Maro115The case of Emily1187Different people, same places - different places, same people125The journey126Greece: from Kallipolis to Athens during the early 1980s127Greece: Thessaloniki and Kallipolis in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s through the stories of Julia, Nena and Soula137The parea - a last note1488The long zeimbekiko151Notes162Bibliography177Index188
