For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town [Paperback]

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 analysisThis extraordinary book exposes the strange world of the parea--a lesbian secret society based in a small-town bar outside Athens, whose members meet clandestinely.

There is plenty of fascinating material for those interested in contemporary Greece and the complex, ambiguous shifting of sexual identity. - Sofka Zinovieff, Anthropology

'Strongly theoretical yet tenderly intimate investigation, For the Love of Women ... is a timely addition to Greek research.' - TLSChapter 1 For the Love of Women; Chapter 2 Theoretical Reflections; Chapter 3 Flirting with the Other; Chapter 4 Relationships; Chapter 5 Separation; Chapter 6 Contextual Identities; Chapter 7 Different People, Same Places  Different Places, Same People; Chapter 8 The Long Zeimbekiko;Elisabeth Kirtsoglou is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Wales Lampeter.US? 2004 Elisabeth Kirtsoglou