(P/B) THE EMPTY CRADLE OF DEMOCRACY

Παρουσίαση

[...] "The Empty Cradle of Democracy" examines the complex relationship between nationalism and gender and re-theorizes late modernity and violence by exploring Greek representations of human agency, the fetus, national identity, eroticism, and the divine. Halkias's analysis combines telling fragments of contemporary Athenian culture, Greek history, media coverage of abortion and the declining birth rate, and fieldwork in Athens at an obstetrics / gynecology clinic and a family-planning center. [...] (From the publisher)

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
The agoras of agon
Setting the stage: Athens, Greece, Fantasy, and History
Stage left: Greek women
Center stage: what is Greece?
Stage right: the Demografiko
In context, in contests
In the operating room: on cows, Greece, and the smoking fetus
Give birth for Greece! Abortion and nation in the Greek Press
Sexing the nation
Navigating the night
The impossible dream: the couple as mother
Abortion, pain, and agency
Instigating dialogues
Reprosexuality and the modern citizen face the specter of Turkey
A critical cartography of the Demografiko's Greece
Epilogue: theory and policy
Notes
References