Women, Gender, and Diasporic Lives - by Evangelia Tastsoglou (Hardcover)

About the Book

Organized around the broad themes of women's labor, community activity, and identity as their organizing concept, Women, Gender, and Diasporic Lives intersects these issues with the concerns of ethnicity, class, generation, and masculinity. The country-specific case studies rev...

Book Synopsis

Organized around the broad themes of women's labor, community activity, and identity as their organizing concept, Women, Gender, and Diasporic Lives intersects these issues with the concerns of ethnicity, class, generation, and masculinity. The country-specific case studies reveal women's intentionality and agency in labor, in building community institutions, and in negotiating and re-defining their identities. The broad range of contributor backgrounds make this book a valuable resource for anyone interested in gender, diaspora, labor, or modern Greek studies.

Review Quotes

In Women, Gender, and Diasporic Lives: Labor, Community, and Identity in Greek Migrations, editor Evangelia Tastsoglou has collected 11 essays that offer insights into emerging issues relating to women's lives in the Greek diaspora and the ways in which these inevitably influence men's diasporic experience....The book's importance lies in the fact that it is the first collection dedicated solely to women's experiences, a subject which previous books on the Greek diaspora have touched upon only tangentially. This collection, which introduces a series dealing with women in the Greek diaspora, starts to fill important research gaps. It is especially the variety of issues discussed, ranging from media consumerism, motherhood, entrepreneurship and regionalism to return, which makes this book an important contribution to the study of (Greek) diaspora, Women's Studies, and certainly (Modern) Greek Studies. Women, Gender, and Diasporic Lives: Labor, Community, and Identity in Greek Migrations deserves to become a standard work in the study of women's diaspora to which it brings new and exciting questions and insights.

The reader who associates "home" and "identity" with single nations will be fascinated by this gendered analysis of Greek families and communities around the world. The section on gender and labor and the section on gender and identity are must-reads for feminist scholars, regardless of their geographic fields.

About the Author

Evangelia Tastsoglou is professor and chair in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at St. Mary's University