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> Chapter 1 For the Love of Women; Chapter 2 Theoretical Reflections; Chapter 3 Flirting with the ‘Other’; Chapter 4 Relationships; Chapter 5 Separation; Chapter 6 Contextual Identities; Chapter 7 Different People, Same Places – Different Places, Same People; Chapter 8 The Long Zeimbekiko;