By Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
This notable e-book exposes the unusual international of the parea--a lesbian mystery society established in a small-town bar outdoor Athens, whose individuals meet clandestinely.
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Loizos and Papataxiarchis, 1991). With reference to the anthropology of southern Europe in general, Goddard argues that the centrality of family and marriage in ethnographic studies is largely due to a tradition of anthropological training ‘anchored in African systems of lineage’ (1994: 68). The ‘domestic model’ of gender as Loizos and Papataxiarchis (1991a: 5) call it, can probably be traced back to the honour and shame tradition that promoted not only a behavioural but also a spatial separation of men and women (Dubisch, 1995: 196).
Foucault demonstrated that the ‘man [sic] of modern humanism was born’ out of ‘meticulous but often minute’ disciplinary techniques which he called ‘the microphysics of power’ (Foucault, 1977: 139, 141). Furthermore, with the concept of bio-power, Foucault successfully linked the disciplinary construction of bodies with the historical contingencies of industrial societies. He claimed that from the seventeenth century onwards, power was directed towards life instead of death: there was an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugation of bodies and the control of populations marking the beginning of an era of ‘bio-power’ .
The counter-argument, often informed by anthropological data, is that gender identity is not always a subject of conscious choice (McNay, 1992: 71; Moore, 1999: 158). Nevertheless, I believe that this criticism is based on a misinformed reading of the performative approach that conflates performance and performativity. Butler draws a distinction between performativity and performance (1993). Performativity for her is more than enacting gender; it involves the repetition of norms ‘which precede, constrain and exceed the performer’ (1993: 234).