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SILENCE, SUBMISSION, AND SUBVERSION: TOWARD A POETICS OF WOMANHOOD
Ist Teil von
Contested Identities, 2016, p.79-97
Ort / Verlag
Princeton: Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
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In the ethnographic literature on Greece, women are usually either submissively silent or dangerously garrulous. These ideal types, symbolized and personified in the characters of the virginal Mary and the wanton Eve (e.g., du Boulay 1986), agree on what women arenot: controllers of their own discourse. Women who cleverly “answer back” may sometimes be respected,¹ while women who appropriately perform funerallaments may arouse sensitive men’s admiration (Caraveli 1986:179). By and large, however, women appear as incomplete humans because of their stereotyped inability to speak rationally. Their besetting inarticulacy is only a virtue inasmuch as it covers, controls, and suppresses