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Halkias's analysis combines telling fragments of contemporary Athenian culture, Greek history, media coverage of abortion and the declining birth rate, and fieldwork in Athens at an obstetrics/gynecology clinic and a family-planning center. Halkias conducted in-depth interviews with one hundred and twenty women who had had two or more abortions and observed more than four hundred gynecological exams at a state family-planning center. She reveals how intimate decisions and the public preoccupation with the low birth rate connect to nationalist ideas of race, religion, freedom, resistance, and the fraught encounter between modernity and tradition. The Empty Cradle of Democracy is a startling examination of how assumptions underlying liberal democracy are betrayed while the nation permeates the body and understandings of gender and sexuality complicate the nation-building projects of late modernity.
Author: Alexandra Halkias
ISBN-10: 0822333112
ISBN-13: 9780822333111
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2004
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.40d
Alexandra Halkias is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Panteion University in Athens, Greece.
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