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Mediterranean Historical Review | 2005

Engendering `Greekness': Women's Emancipation and Irredentist Politics in Nineteenth-Century Greece

Efi Avdela; Angelika Psarra

This paper explores how the Greco-Turkish war of 1897, in which Greece suffered a bitter defeat, gave educated upper- and middle-class Greek women the opportunity to claim their integration into the nation. The dominant irredentist ideology of the period immediately preceding the declaration of war assigned a particular place to women. The war allowed those gathered around the periodical Efimeris ton Kyrion and its founder and promoter of Greek womens emancipation, Kallirroi Parren, to develop public activities and participation in the national war effort. Amidst the crisis generated by the defeat, Parren was able to formulate a messianic discourse which defined the desired gendered dimensions of ‘Greekness’ in ways that legitimized her efforts to qualify women as ‘active citizens’.


Gender & History | 1997

Contested Meanings: Protection and Resistance in Labour Inspectors’ Reports in Twentieth‐Century Greece

Efi Avdela

Reports written by Labour Inspectors responsible for the implementation of protective labour legislation in Greek industry during the period 1913–34 are analysed both as discourses that construct new industrial relations and as sources that provide evidence of workers’ resistance. To account for their difficulty in implementing labour laws, Inspectors defined themselves as agents of ‘progress’ struggling against the ‘backwardness’ of the working masses, especially as expressed in gender attitudes. Yet the reports also provide evidence of divergent cultural meanings and unravel the multiple ways in which men and women workers negotiated their identities.


Archive | 1991

The ‘History of Women’ in Greece

Efi Avdela

It is commonly accepted today that the questions historians ask of the past are directly related to their concerns and inquiries about the present. The writing of history is not a neutral act, but has evident ideological and therefore political connotations. In this way, the development of the new field of history called ‘the history of women’, internationally, over the last twenty years, is directly linked to the growth of the feminist movement. Defining women’s status as social and therefore reversible, contemporary feminists turned to the past in order to study the various forms of gender inequality, the mechanisms that maintained and reproduced it, the moments of resistance and suppression. What they did in fact was to bring women to the forefront of history, giving them a past or, in other words, a collective identity, and revealing gender relations as a driving force of history.


Gender & History | 1999

Work, Gender & History in the 1990s and Beyond

Efi Avdela

By the end of the 1980s, having amply demonstrated that the study of class could no longer be separated from the study of gender, feminist historians were advocating a new gendered history of work. At the beginning of the 1990s, American historian Ava Baron identified four problems that womens labour history had left unresolved: the need to move womens labour history out of its ghetto; an explanation for the mechanisms of sexual difference in labour relations; the theorisation of womens and mens ‘consent’ to oppression; and an understanding of the differences among women. The quest for a gendered labour history required new conceptual tools and new theoretical approaches. This paper tests this agenda against research on work and gender in the last decade of Gender & History. The moves toward the interrelation of public and private, work and family, as well as toward the construction of identities calls into question whether work remains a distinctive historical field.


Social History | 2018

The social history of modern Greece: a roundtable

Efi Avdela; Thomas W. Gallant; Nikolaos Papadogiannis; Leda Papastefanaki; Polymeris Voglis

How is social history written and practiced in differing political and geographical contexts? As a journal, Social History has encouraged reflection on trajectories in different parts of the world though special issues on, most recently, Spain, the Caribbean, Hungary and the Czech and Slovak Republics.1 This round-table discussion builds on this series of conversations by examining the social history and historiography of modern Greece – as written both within and outside of the country – and its contribution to wider European and global histories. Five social historians, at different career stages with contrasting biographies, participated in the roundtable through an exchange of views during the spring of 2017. The aims were to reflect on academic influences and trajectories; to identify future directions for the social history of modern Greece, including ways to better link it with the study of wider regions; and to analyse the very real effects of political change and financial crisis for the types of history that are produced and the choices that social historians of Greece make.


Social History | 2017

Youth ‘in moral danger’: (re)conceptualizing delinquency in post-Civil-War Greece

Efi Avdela

Abstract Juvenile delinquency generated strong international anxieties in the 1950s and 1960s. Its purported increase became an important political issue that mobilized a multitude of national public and private agents, as well as the new international bodies established after the end of the Second World War. The wide ‘transnational discourse’ on juvenile delinquency, formed during this period, had two distinctive features: it repeatedly claimed scientific status and it was permeated by strong moralism. This article focuses on the case of Greece. It shows that, although part of this wider discourse, the way in which the category of ‘youth in moral danger’ was constructed, addressed and transformed in the Greek public realm, testified to the particular local cultural, social and political context. It sketches the unstable and fluid content of this category at the level of official and scholarly discourse, and the public interventions of various public and private child-saving agencies and institutions. In the 1960s the concern for ‘youth in moral danger’ left the public domain but continued to permeate policies and discourses surrounding juvenile delinquency. Attempts by psychologists to go beyond moralism, by focusing on self-adjustment rather than moral regulation, remained marginal and were curtailed by the military coup of 1967 and the re-politicization of the ‘youth problem’.


Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea | 2006

Historia de las mujeres y de género en Grecia: ¿un factor molesto?

Efi Avdela

Este articulo analiza los avances de la historia de las mujeres y del genero en Grecia desde principios de los anos 80, situandolos en el contexto internacional y en el de la historiografia griega. Muestra como la produccion se ha centrado fundamentalmente en las clases medias urbanas, las instituciones publicas y la accion individual. Tematicamente, la historia de las mujeres y del genero en Grecia se ha desarrollado en torno a dos ejes: los derechos civiles, sociales y especialmente politicos, es decir, los aspectos generizados de la ciudadania, por un lado, y el trabajo, su division generizada y las consecuencias de ello, por otro. El articulo sostiene que esos estudios han ampliado la investigacion historica para incluir las vias a traves de las cuales el genero ha modelado las relaciones de clase, la identidad familiar y la jerarquia nacional, asi como el significado de la protesta social, la politica y la formacion del espacio publico. Tambien tiene en cuenta los puntos debiles de la produccion en ese campo, asi como las tendencias mas recientes en la investigacion y la ensenanza universitaria.


Archive | 2005

Between duties and rights: Gender and citizenship in Greece, 1864–1952

Efi Avdela


Journal of Contemporary History | 2008

`Corrupting and Uncontrollable Activities': Moral Panic about Youth in Post-Civil-War Greece

Efi Avdela


Archive | 2002

« Pour cause d’honneur » : violence interpersonnelle et rapports de genre en Grèce dans les années 1950-1960

Efi Avdela

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