Gender Discrimination, Mortal Neglect and Female Infanticide in Greece, Mid-Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century
A Mixed Methods Analysis
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Beschreibung
This book offers the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis of gender discrimination and female infanticide in Greece during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While focusing on a single case study, it offers insights into broader patterns of gender discrimination across Europe, particularly in countries shaped by social upheaval, economic instability, and deeply entrenched patriarchal structures. The book combines extensive quantitative analysis of population records, census data, and economic indicators such as dowries with innovative qualitative research.
Unlike similar studies in other regions, this book employs a multidisciplinary approach. Integrating mixed methods and sources, including census data, contemporary literature, oral histories, and folklore, it provides a nuanced understanding of local variations, mentalities, and socio-economic factors influencing discriminatory practices. The book challenges the conventional narrative that Europe did not experience high levels of gender discrimination in childhood during this period. Drawing on sources ranging from foundling hospital records to folkloric texts, it uncovers the major social and economic dimensions of this phenomenon in Greece. It also pays particular attention to skewed sex ratios and women’s labour and economic opportunities, examining how these intersected with regional family systems and gender inequalities, while opening avenues for future research into their longer-term social and economic implications.
This will be an important read for scholars in economic history, population economics, gender history, historical demography, and ethnography.
Eftychia Kalaitzidou is a researcher at the Department of Historical Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Her PhD research, conducted within the project "Missing Girls in Historical Europe", examined gender discrimination, excess female mortality, and girls’ experiences in Greece during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is currently a researcher in the project "All the Names", which investigates historical naming practices and their relationship to family, identity, migration, and social change. Her broader research interests include gender and family history, historical demography, childhood, naming and identity, migration, war and political violence, and gendered experiences of conflict, with particular emphasis on combining quantitative and qualitative approaches.
This book offers the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis of gender discrimination and female infanticide in Greece during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While focusing on a single case study, it offers insights into broader patterns of gender discrimination across Europe, particularly in countries shaped by social upheaval, economic instability, and deeply entrenched patriarchal structures. The book combines extensive quantitative analysis of population records, census data, and economic indicators such as dowries with innovative qualitative research.
Unlike similar studies in other regions, this book employs a multidisciplinary approach. Integrating mixed methods and sources, including census data, contemporary literature, oral histories, and folklore, it provides a nuanced understanding of local variations, mentalities, and socio-economic factors influencing discriminatory practices. The book challenges the conventional narrative that Europe did not experience high levels of gender discrimination in childhood during this period. Drawing on sources ranging from foundling hospital records to folkloric texts, it uncovers the major social and economic dimensions of this phenomenon in Greece. It also pays particular attention to skewed sex ratios and women’s labour and economic opportunities, examining how these intersected with regional family systems and gender inequalities, while opening avenues for future research into their longer-term social and economic implications.
This will be an important read for scholars in economic history, population economics, gender history, historical demography, and ethnography.
Focuses in-depth on a single country case study, Greece, while exploring comparative links with other country settings Analyses the economic pressures and discriminatory practices that affected girls disproportionately in historical Greece Combines extensive quantitative analysis with a diverse qualitative source base
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Eftychia Kalaitzidou
Themen in »Gender Discrimination, Mortal Neglect and Female Infanticide in Greece, Mid-Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century«
Gender Discrimination Gendered Economy Dowry Systems Sex Ratios Female Abandonment Patriarchy Infanticide Mortal Neglect Foundlings Female labour Labour opportunities Marriage Economic crises Historical gender-based violence