Gender and National Identity in fin de siècle Greece

Abstract

Greece ELENI VARIKASFor my grandmother, the refugee school teacher from Asia Minor, who taught me how not to hate the 'enemy'.

Negotiating female judoka identities in Greece: A Foucauldian discourse analysis

“…According to Foucault (1978), family serves in the (re)production of patriarchal 439 structures and conventional gender roles. This is also the case in Greece where traditional family 440 structures and gender relations persist and Greek women find it hard to escape from their webs of 441 power (Kyriazis, 1998;Lazaridis, 1994;Varikas, 1993). The institution of the family plays a 442 significant role in maintaining traditional roles and values, because it is within family that girlsleadership and protect/support his family.…”

“…Examining the Greek national identity, Varikas (1993) household and protected by male relatives, Greek women appear to develop a sense of both 228 safety (Athanasiadis, 2007) and innocence, since excluded from power, they are not responsible 229…”

Tracing heterotopias: writing women educators in Greece

“…Research has shown many instances of women teachers' patriotic activities. As it has been commented (Varikas, 1987(Varikas, , 1993, the need and strong wish of those women to become independent and escape a meaningless and idle life was combined with their patriotic activities, patriotic exaltation on the one hand and attraction for travelling and adventure on the other. Therefore, the enlivenment of the Great Idea, the idea of the expansion of the Greek state and the reappropriation of its past glory, opened women teachers a path for political involvement and was used by them as a vehicle to claim the right of citizenship [29].…”