Mediterranea
Memories Cast in Stone: The Relevance of the Past in Everyday Life
1st Edition
By David Sutton
July 01, 2000
How does the past matter in the present? How is a feeling of ‘ownership' of the past expressed in people's everyday lives? Should continuity with the distant past be seen as simply a nationalist fiction or is it transformed by local historical imagination? While recent anthropological studies have ...
Gender and Migration in Southern Europe: Women on the Move
1st Edition
Edited
By Floya Anthias, Gabriella Lazaridis
January 02, 2000
The important role women play in the process of migration to the Western bloc - and in particular to Southern Europe where they often find jobs in the domestic service, tourist or sex industries - has been increasingly recognized. This timely book provides essential new insights into the forms of ...
Gypsies in Madrid: Sex, Gender and the Performance of Identity
1st Edition
By Paloma Gay y Blasco
July 01, 1999
Throughout the twentieth century, Spanish people have deployed conflicting sexual moralities in their struggle for political supremacy within the state. The Spanish Gypsies or Gitanos, who live at the very bottom of the Spanish socio-economic scale, have appropriated this concern with gender ...
Women and Bullfighting: Gender, Sex and the Consumption of Tradition
1st Edition
By Sarah Pink
November 01, 1997
This book investigates the popularity and success of contemporary women performers in bullfighting culture, which has been framed by a discourse of 'traditionalist' masculinity. This examination of the changing situation of women in the bullfighting world is used to explore the ways in which gender...
Gender, Family and Work in Naples
1st Edition
By Victoria A. Goddard
March 01, 1996
Breaking new ground in Mediterreanean anthropology, this book rejects the discipline's traditional focus on honour and shame in small face-to-face communities, and suggests instead that gender and sexuality interact with material processes in the constitution of personal and social identities. In ...