Author: AVDELA, EFI [AVDELA, EFFIE)
Title: Dia Logous Times : Bia, Synaisthemata Kai Axies Sti Metemphylake Ellada
Description: Athens, Ekdoseis Nephele. 2002, 1st Greek Ed.. (ISBN: 9602116560) Original Wraps. Book, Life Through honor killings Violence, feelings and values in a post-civil war Greece " This book ia about "honor killings" in post-civil war Greek society in the decades 1950 and 1960. With sources in judicial records, newspapers and magazines, legal, sociological and anthropological texts of the era, the author analyzes how public opinion, journalists, judges and prosecutors, scientists faced the phenomenon of "honor killings" The apologies of the perpetrators "honor killings" and the testimony of witnesses, demonstrates the ethics, the legality of interpersonal violence and the hierarchy of the sexes in the Greek family of the time. The judicial management of crimes "by the name of honor" and the public debate about the role of jurors, administration of justice and crime illustrate the gradual questioning the value of the code invoked by the perpetrators.through the optics and methods of the new cultural history of the transformation in the prevailing social standards, the book demonstrates how Greek society changed .so the interpersonal violence that characterized the post-civil war period gradually lost its symbolic legitimacy." 257p. bibliography [WorldCat lists only 5 copies in the USA]. New Book from Greece.

Keywords: 9602116560 Women Honour Killings Greece Women in Greek Society Books in Greek


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