Dissertation Research: Redefining Reproduction in Urban Greece: A Cultural Study of Family Planning

研究人员将调查最近女性社会和经济机会的扩大、亲生育政策的实施以及希腊城市新产前技术的可用性是否以及如何促使人们重新思考关于性别、亲属关系和个人主义的观念。通过在塞萨洛尼基的人种学访谈、参与者观察和档案研究，该研究将调查希腊城市居民如何形成关于生物生殖和计划生育方法的观念，同时这些观念被希腊人用来通过个人成就来协商社会地位的产生。这项研究将收集有关计划生育言论和实践的数据，作为这些变化的指数。将在政治经济背景下探讨生殖观念和做法。我们也会考虑到在希腊民族国家正在进行的建设中，再生产是如何牵连的。通过在女性生活经历的更广泛背景下解释她们的生育历史，该研究将寻求在历史交叉点上对当代希腊堕胎实践的理解：1)关于母性、生育和性的“传统”和“现代”观念；2)计划生育的法律和经济限制；3)新的避孕和产前技术。本文将通过研究“传统的”希腊生殖理解如何被定义和评估以对抗西方化的影响，从而扩展女性主义者对生殖研究的见解_!!!F y y ( Times New Roman象征,Arial u u " h e e e m j科利尔帕克森文摘文摘科利尔帕克森雷蒙德Raymond树树

Collier/Parson 9312633 The researcher will investigate whether and how the recent expansion of women's social and economic opportunities, the implementation of pro-natalist policies, and the availability of new pre-natal technologies in urban Greece are prompting people to rethink ideas about gender, kinship, and individualism. Through ethnographic interviewing, participant-observation, and archival research in Thessaloniki, the study will investigate how urban Greeks form ideas about biological reproduction and methods of family planning at the same time these ideas are used by Greeks to negotiate the production of social status through personal achievement. The research will collect data on family planning rhetoric and practice as an index of such changes. Reproductive ideas and practices will be explored in political-economic context. Consideration will also be given to way in which reproduction is implicated in the ongoing construction of the Greek nation-state. Through interpretation of women's reproductive histories in the broader context of their life experiences, the study will seek an understanding of contemporary Greek abortion practices at the historical intersection of 1) "traditional" and "modern" ideas about motherhood, procreation, and sexuality; 2) legal and economic constraints on family planning and parenting; and 3) new contraceptive and prenatal technologies. The dissertation resulting from this research will extend the insights of feminists studies of reproduction i by investigating how "traditional" Greek reproductive understandings are defined and valued against Westernizing influence s. *** _ ! ! ! F y y ( Times New Roman Symbol & Arial u u u " h e e e m j collier paxson abstract abstract collier paxson abstract thesis Raymond Hames Raymond Hames