This pioneering book reveals how nationalism in Ninteenth-century Greece helped women to develop an alternative vision of female politics, history, and citizenship. Shedding new light on women's ideas and beliefs the author brings to life the story of the ideas that formed our societies and individual identities.

'This is an unusually interesting and important book, which illuminates both our understanding of how modern nations have been built, and how women have tried to find new roles for themselves. Its value goes far beyond its specific Greek subject; it is a book for all nations and for men as well as women. It is the fruit of wide reading as well as a great deal of research into largely forgotten sources and it leaves the reader with a sense of wonder at the complexity of human aspirations and emotions.'

Theodore Zeldin, President of the Oxford Muse Foundation

'Tzanaki's meticulous research and careful contextualization of her case in the wider European scholarship on gender, nationalism and the public sphere make this an exemplary study. This is a ground-breaking piece of research for South-East European history and will be read with profit much more widely.'

Wendy Bracewell, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London

Autorentext
DEMETRA TZANAKI studied political studies and Balkan history at the University of Athens, Greece, the University of London, UK and the University of Oxford, UK. She currently teaches at the University of Athens and is the author of The History of Roles and Attitudes in Nineteenth Century Greece.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Antithesis between History and Recorded History PART I: GENDER AND THE NATION (1832-1869) King of the Greeks or King of the Hellenes? Morality and Female Authority The Prototype Kingdom. What Kind of Woman? PART II: THE EMERGENCE OF A FEMALE CONSCIOUSNESS: WOMEN AND THE NATION (1870-1880) The Choice of Terms Women and Hellenismos . The Publication of Evridiki The Cult of Domesticity and the World Outside Home Lessons of Life PART III: GENDER AND THE STATE (1880-1897) The Civic Religion A Kind of Power. Women and Politics: The Publication of Ephimeris ton Kyrion (1887-1897) Conclusion Bibliography Index