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

科利尔/帕森9312633这位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，以及希腊城市中新的产前技术的可获得性，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想法。通过塞萨洛尼基的人种学访谈、参与者观察和档案研究，这项研究将调查城市希腊人如何形成关于生物繁殖和计划生育方法的思想，同时这些思想被希腊人用来谈判通过个人成就来创造社会地位。这项研究将收集有关计划生育言论和实践的数据，作为此类变化的索引。将在政治经济背景下探讨生殖思想和做法。还将考虑以何种方式将生殖牵涉到正在进行的希腊民族国家建设中。通过在更广泛的生活经历的背景下解释妇女的生育史，这项研究将寻求对当代希腊堕胎做法的理解，这些历史交汇点包括：1)关于母亲、生育和性行为的“传统”和“现代”观念；2)对计划生育和育儿的法律和经济限制；以及3)新的避孕和产前技术。这项研究产生的论文将扩展女权主义者对生殖研究的洞察力，通过调查“传统的”希腊生殖理解是如何在西化影响下被定义和评价的，S。_！！！F y y(Times New Roman符号&amp；Arial u“H e m j Collier Paxson抽象抽象Collier Paxson抽象论文Raymond Hmes Raymond Hams

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