The aim of this study is to identify the negotiation of boundaries between the social identities of gender. This process focuses on the prevailing perceptions of the social role of the man and the woman. It attempts to identify the different reasons for seeking divorce between men and women and the integration of these differences in a social context and determine the qualitative characteristics of the gender ratio of women and men that is articulated by the invocation of divorce. This research has a historical character and focuses on the period from 1647 to 1923 and is realized within the Ottoman Orthodox Christian communities and the divorces issued by these. This study uses content analysis to examine divorces. The most significant source
The purpose of this study is to highlight aspects of the publishing activity of the Educational Association founded in Athens in 1910. The main aims of the Association were the educational reform and the diffusion of the vernacular language form of Greek, the demotic, in education. From 1913 to 1919, the numbered book series Educational Association Children’s Library published fairy tales in the demotic language in three books. Members of the Association worked for the fairy tales: the authors Penelope Delta and Julia Dragoumi, both specialized in juvenile literature and the educator Alexander Delmouzos as a translator. The fairy tales, written or translated by the members of the Association named above, were for specific age groups of children and covered the entire spectrum from the very young children to the older. This article evaluates the role of fairy tales in the Educational Association’s aims. In that context, fairy tales were of paramount importance both as a literary text for the spread of the demotic language and as a pedagogical tool.
This study focuses on divorces in the Principality of Samos, which existed from 1834 to 1912. The process of divorce is described according to the laws of the rincipality, and divorces are examined among those published in the Newspaper of the Government of the Principality of Samos from the last decade of the Principality from 1902 to 1911. Issues linked to divorce are investigated, like the differences between husbands and wives regarding the initiation and reasons for requesting a divorce. These differences are integrated in the specific social context of the Principality, and the qualitative characteristics are determined in regard to the gender ratio of women and men that is articulated by the invocation of divorce. The aim is to determine the boundaries of social identities of gender with focus on the prevailing perceptions of the social roles of men and women. Gender is used as a social and cultural construction. It is argued that the social gender identity is formed through a process of "performativity", that is, through adaptation to the dominant social ideals.According to Table 1 and Graph 1, of the total of 182 requests for divorces examined during 1902-1911, husbands represented 56,04%, while wives represented 43,96%. The main reasons for male requests for divorces (Table 2 and Graph 3) are "overnight accommodation of a wife away from her family house without consent from her husband" (45,7%) and the separation of spouses for five years due to the wife's responsibility, which was the second most important reason (16,4%) among husbands. Abandonment of the family home was the most common reason (62,1%) for husbands' requests for divorces. According to Table 2, men requested divorces for reasons of adultery at a significant percentage (24,3 %), while for women, this reason is mentioned only for 4,3% of the requests for divorces.The differences in reasons for both genders are clear. For wives, the main reason is abandonment by the husband in combination with indifference to caring for the wife (45,7%). Estrangement of the wife for five years represented 28,4%, seven years of abandonment without covering the living needs of the wife represented 7,8%, and a failure to support the wife represented 9,5%. Maltreatment seems to be extremely important for 33,6% of wives, (injuries: 25%; attempt on life: 8,6%). In contrast, men's maltreatment represented only 2,1%. According to the Table 2 and the Graph 2, the main reasons for both genders are abandonment of the family home (50,4 %), maltreatment (16,4 %) and adultery (15,3%).We investigated the residence of the spouse petitioning for divorce according to gender (Table 3 and Graph 4), which showed that 67,6% of both genders asking for a divorce were living in Samos, and only 32,4% lived outside of the Principality, (mainly Asia Minor, North America, Greece, and Egypt. Interestingly, 1,1% lived in Orthodox monasteries. For husbands asking for a divorce, 77,5% lived in Samos, 11,8% were in North America, and 4,9% were in Asia Minor. For wives, 55% lived in Samos, 1...
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