Constructing Modernity from Its Borders: Muslim Minority Women's Encounter with Education and Assisted Reproductive Technology in Modern Greece

Pinelopi Topali; Pinelopi Effie Plexousaki

DOI:10.1353/MGS.2018.0005

Corpus ID: 88504281

Constructing Modernity from Its Borders: Muslim Minority Women's Encounter with Education and Assisted Reproductive Technology in Modern Greece

@article{Topali2018ConstructingMF,
  title={Constructing Modernity from Its Borders: Muslim Minority Women's Encounter with Education and Assisted Reproductive Technology in Modern Greece},
  author={Pinelopi Topali and Pinelopi Effie Plexousaki},
  journal={Journal of Modern Greek Studies},
  year={2018},
  volume={36},
  pages={165 - 192}
}

Pinelopi Topali, Pinelopi Effie Plexousaki

Published 2018

Sociology

Journal of Modern Greek Studies

Abstract:This article explores conceptions of modernity as both gendered and culturally mediated formations in the longstanding minority of Thrace in Northern Greece, examining how women in this community treat mobility, education, and the use of assisted reproductive technologies. In engaging these subjects both discursively and practically, this "minority within the minority" simultaneously embraces and undermines dominant understandings of modernity that code it as ethnoculturally Greek and… CONTINUE READING

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