For the Love of Women

<p>This extraordinary book opens up the strange world of the 'parea' - a lesbian secret society based in a small-town bar outside Athens whose members meet clandestinely to drink dance and flirt. Though conducting intense sexual affairs under the noses of other customers the parea's members - many of whom are married with children and have perfectly conventional lives by Greek standards - do not identify themselves as gay and have very negative images of homosexuality. Based entirely on fieldwork within the parea <em>For The Love of Women</em> weaves stories of women's lives and relationships into an intriguing and perceptive analysis</p>