From submission to dependence: Women's status in a pelion village
Abstract
Pouri is a Pelion village which long remained remote. Established in
the middleof the 18th century, its history is that discontinuous one of
those villages which receive successive migratory waves.The changes
it has undergone (transition from share-croping or factory wage
earning systems to agricultural self-employment; mechanization of
certain farm-work) have always taken place at the expense of women.
Their inferior position has not allowed them to benefit immediately
from the economic and technical improvements; on the contrary,
they pay the cost of it. either in extra work (1920-1955), or in increas
ed isolation ( 1960-1970).'or to-day in a discrepancy between their
aspirations (to live like urban housewives) and their village life
characterized by boredom and disillusionment. For, if mechanization
liberated them from what they call «slavery», i.e. an almost
unbearable load of work, it did not give them the means of becoming
autonomous and self-reliant. Moreover, they do not wish to become
independent: they have interiorized their dependence so much that
they consider it as a natural necessity.
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Handman, M.-E. (1981). From submission to dependence: Women’s status in a pelion village. The Greek Review of Social Research, 231–244. https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.579
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