For the Love of Women by Elisabeth Kirtsoglou

For the Love of Women

Gender, Identity And Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town

Elisabeth Kirtsoglou

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

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Details

ISBN 9780415310307
Genre LGBT Studies/Social Sciences
Publication Date 2004
Publisher Routledge
No. of Pages 192
Notes Lambda Literary Award Winner
LoC Classification HQ75.6.G8 .K57 2004
Language English
Rating Great
Subject Dating (Social Customs) – Greece; Female Friendship – Greece; Interpersonal Relations – Greece; Lesbians – Identity. – Greece; Lesbians – Sexual Behavior. – Greece; Lesbians – Social Networks. – Greece
BookID 4190

Author: LFWBooks