Efi Avdela
Biographic Data
| ID | 2326688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Efi Avdela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Efi |
| FAMILY NAME | Avdela |
| SIGNATURE | AVDELA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Crete |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0225-5851 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gendering the Mixed Economies of Welfare
The Introduction explains the usefulness of the term “mixed economy of welfare”, the crucial role of gender in its formation and the different meanings of “postwar” in the national case studies included in the special issue. It also previews the six articles of the issue and highlights the often unexpected similarities between them
Gender and Anticommunism in Children’s Social Protection in Postwar Greece
The article analyses the welfare activities provided by the Greek royal foundations in the period from their establishment in 1947 until 1968, focusing on their interventions concerning children and youth and their evolution over time. Placing the royal foundations’ activities in the Cold War and post-Civil War context, it argues that the intertwined state, parastatal and private initiatives, among which they had a hegemonic role, constituted the…
Notre amie et nous
Dimitra Vassiliadou, Στον τροπικό της γραφής. Οικογɛνɛιακοί δɛσμοί και συναισθήματα στην αστική Ελλάδα, 1850–1930 [The tropic of writing. Family ties and emotions in modern Greece, 1850–1930]
Racialism and Eugenics in Greek Criminology
This article highlights the racial and eugenic influences underpinning the establishment of criminology in Greece. It focuses on Konstantinos Gardikas, the founder of Greek criminology and its principal representative from the 1930s to the 1970s. After studying in Switzerland, he founded the main Greek criminological and forensic services, and maintained close relationships with European and international criminological and police bodies. As a un…
From Virginity to Orgasm
This article charts the gradual sexualization of marriage in twentieth-century Greece, exploring both expert and lay ideas. First, through official writings and marital correspondence, it sketches the subtle transformation of the nineteenth-century ideal of conjugal love into a more sexualized emotion by the turn of the century. Then, it analyzes the writings of “sex experts” and the correspondence with their clients, showcasing how sexual pleasu…
Florence Rochefort
When Juvenile Delinquency Became an International Post-War Concern
I am grateful to Professor Maria Stassinopoulou
Evdoxios Doxiadis, The Shackles of Modernity
Le livre de Evdoxios Doxiadis, aujourd’hui professeur assistant au Département des études helléniques à l’Université Simon Fraser, étudie les transformations survenues dans les rapports des femmes à la propriété au cours de la période qui s’étend des sociétés gréco-ottomanes traditionnelles prérévolutionnaires, gérées suivant les coutumes, à la société grecque régie par la législation de l’État moderne, après une décennie de Guerre d’indépendance…
The social history of modern Greece
How is social history written and practiced in differing political and geographical contexts?As a journal, Social History has encouraged reflection on trajectories in different parts of the world though special issues on, most recently, Spain, the Caribbean, Hungary, and the Czech and Slovak Republics. 1 This round-table discussion builds on this series of conversations by examining the social history and historiography of modern Greeceas written…
Youth ‘in moral danger’
Juvenile delinquency generated strong international anxieties in the 1950s and 1960s. Its purported increase became an important political issue that mobilized a multitude of national public and private agents, as well as the new international bodies established after the end of the Second World War. The wide ‘transnational discourse’ on juvenile delinquency, formed during this period, had two distinctive features: it repeatedly claimed scientifi…
Le genre dans la crise, ou ce qui arrive aux « femmes » dans les temps difficiles
L’article soutient à partir du cas grec que la crise économique actuelle, tout en affectant de manière disproportionnée les femmes, rend le genre invisible. En se focalisant sur les « femmes qui travaillent », Efi Avdela montre que cela n’a pas toujours été le cas : durant l’entre-deux-guerres, par exemple, les contenus attribués à la différence des sexes étaient politisés et le genre était visible. Le manque actuel de visibilité du genre consacr…
Corrupting and Uncontrollable Activities
In the 1950s, as the Cold War was setting in, dividing the world, a new spectre was rising, reuniting it against a common threat: the 'youth who have strayed' and their 'criminal' proclivity. Governments, legal professionals, the press and the public in a host of countries throughout the world agonized over the new danger. The problem of 'juvenile delinquency' seriously preoccupied the World Health Organization and the Council of Europe, which or…
Engendering ‘Greekness’
This paper explores how the Greco-Turkish war of 1897, in which Greece suffered a bitter defeat, gave educated upper- and middle-class Greek women the opportunity to claim their integration into the nation. The dominant irredentist ideology of the period immediately preceding the declaration of war assigned a particular place to women. The war allowed those gathered around the periodical Efimeris ton Kyrion and its founder and promoter of Greek w…
Work, Gender & History in the 1990s and Beyond
By the end of the 1980s, having amply demonstrated that the study of class could no longer be separated from the study of gender, feminist historians were advocating a new gendered history of work. At the beginning of the 1990s, American historian Ava Baron identified four problems that women's labour history had left unresolved: the need to move women's labour history out of its ghetto; an explanation for the mechanisms of sexual difference in l…
Contested Meanings
Reports written by Labour Inspectors responsible for the implementation of protective labour legislation in Greek industry during the period 1913–34 are analysed both as discourses that construct new industrial relations and as sources that provide evidence of workers’ resistance. To account for their difficulty in implementing labour laws, Inspectors defined themselves as agents of ‘progress’ struggling against the ‘backwardness’ of the working …
Engendering ‘Greekness’
This paper explores how the Greco-Turkish war of 1897, in which Greece suffered a bitter defeat, gave educated upper- and middle-class Greek women the opportunity to claim their integration into the nation. The dominant irredentist ideology of the period immediately preceding the declaration of war assigned a particular place to women. The war allowed those gathered around the periodical Efimeris ton Kyrion and its founder and promoter of Greek w…
From Virginity to Orgasm
This article charts the gradual sexualization of marriage in twentieth-century Greece, exploring both expert and lay ideas. First, through official writings and marital correspondence, it sketches the subtle transformation of the nineteenth-century ideal of conjugal love into a more sexualized emotion by the turn of the century. Then, it analyzes the writings of “sex experts” and the correspondence with their clients, showcasing how sexual pleasu…
Corrupting and Uncontrollable Activities
In the 1950s, as the Cold War was setting in, dividing the world, a new spectre was rising, reuniting it against a common threat: the 'youth who have strayed' and their 'criminal' proclivity. Governments, legal professionals, the press and the public in a host of countries throughout the world agonized over the new danger. The problem of 'juvenile delinquency' seriously preoccupied the World Health Organization and the Council of Europe, which or…
Contested Meanings
Reports written by Labour Inspectors responsible for the implementation of protective labour legislation in Greek industry during the period 1913–34 are analysed both as discourses that construct new industrial relations and as sources that provide evidence of workers’ resistance. To account for their difficulty in implementing labour laws, Inspectors defined themselves as agents of ‘progress’ struggling against the ‘backwardness’ of the working …
Contested Meanings
Reports written by Labour Inspectors responsible for the implementation of protective labour legislation in Greek industry during the period 1913–34 are analysed both as discourses that construct new industrial relations and as sources that provide evidence of workers’ resistance. To account for their difficulty in implementing labour laws, Inspectors defined themselves as agents of ‘progress’ struggling against the ‘backwardness’ of the working …
Work, Gender & History in the 1990s and Beyond
By the end of the 1980s, having amply demonstrated that the study of class could no longer be separated from the study of gender, feminist historians were advocating a new gendered history of work. At the beginning of the 1990s, American historian Ava Baron identified four problems that women's labour history had left unresolved: the need to move women's labour history out of its ghetto; an explanation for the mechanisms of sexual difference in l…
Engendering ‘Greekness’
This paper explores how the Greco-Turkish war of 1897, in which Greece suffered a bitter defeat, gave educated upper- and middle-class Greek women the opportunity to claim their integration into the nation. The dominant irredentist ideology of the period immediately preceding the declaration of war assigned a particular place to women. The war allowed those gathered around the periodical Efimeris ton Kyrion and its founder and promoter of Greek w…
Corrupting and Uncontrollable Activities
In the 1950s, as the Cold War was setting in, dividing the world, a new spectre was rising, reuniting it against a common threat: the 'youth who have strayed' and their 'criminal' proclivity. Governments, legal professionals, the press and the public in a host of countries throughout the world agonized over the new danger. The problem of 'juvenile delinquency' seriously preoccupied the World Health Organization and the Council of Europe, which or…
Le genre dans la crise, ou ce qui arrive aux « femmes » dans les temps difficiles
L’article soutient à partir du cas grec que la crise économique actuelle, tout en affectant de manière disproportionnée les femmes, rend le genre invisible. En se focalisant sur les « femmes qui travaillent », Efi Avdela montre que cela n’a pas toujours été le cas : durant l’entre-deux-guerres, par exemple, les contenus attribués à la différence des sexes étaient politisés et le genre était visible. Le manque actuel de visibilité du genre consacr…
The social history of modern Greece
How is social history written and practiced in differing political and geographical contexts?As a journal, Social History has encouraged reflection on trajectories in different parts of the world though special issues on, most recently, Spain, the Caribbean, Hungary, and the Czech and Slovak Republics. 1 This round-table discussion builds on this series of conversations by examining the social history and historiography of modern Greeceas written…
Youth ‘in moral danger’
Juvenile delinquency generated strong international anxieties in the 1950s and 1960s. Its purported increase became an important political issue that mobilized a multitude of national public and private agents, as well as the new international bodies established after the end of the Second World War. The wide ‘transnational discourse’ on juvenile delinquency, formed during this period, had two distinctive features: it repeatedly claimed scientifi…
When Juvenile Delinquency Became an International Post-War Concern
I am grateful to Professor Maria Stassinopoulou
Evdoxios Doxiadis, The Shackles of Modernity
Le livre de Evdoxios Doxiadis, aujourd’hui professeur assistant au Département des études helléniques à l’Université Simon Fraser, étudie les transformations survenues dans les rapports des femmes à la propriété au cours de la période qui s’étend des sociétés gréco-ottomanes traditionnelles prérévolutionnaires, gérées suivant les coutumes, à la société grecque régie par la législation de l’État moderne, après une décennie de Guerre d’indépendance…
Florence Rochefort
Dimitra Vassiliadou, Στον τροπικό της γραφής. Οικογɛνɛιακοί δɛσμοί και συναισθήματα στην αστική Ελλάδα, 1850–1930 [The tropic of writing. Family ties and emotions in modern Greece, 1850–1930]
Racialism and Eugenics in Greek Criminology
This article highlights the racial and eugenic influences underpinning the establishment of criminology in Greece. It focuses on Konstantinos Gardikas, the founder of Greek criminology and its principal representative from the 1930s to the 1970s. After studying in Switzerland, he founded the main Greek criminological and forensic services, and maintained close relationships with European and international criminological and police bodies. As a un…
From Virginity to Orgasm
This article charts the gradual sexualization of marriage in twentieth-century Greece, exploring both expert and lay ideas. First, through official writings and marital correspondence, it sketches the subtle transformation of the nineteenth-century ideal of conjugal love into a more sexualized emotion by the turn of the century. Then, it analyzes the writings of “sex experts” and the correspondence with their clients, showcasing how sexual pleasu…
Notre amie et nous
Gendering the Mixed Economies of Welfare
The Introduction explains the usefulness of the term “mixed economy of welfare”, the crucial role of gender in its formation and the different meanings of “postwar” in the national case studies included in the special issue. It also previews the six articles of the issue and highlights the often unexpected similarities between them
Gender and Anticommunism in Children’s Social Protection in Postwar Greece
The article analyses the welfare activities provided by the Greek royal foundations in the period from their establishment in 1947 until 1968, focusing on their interventions concerning children and youth and their evolution over time. Placing the royal foundations’ activities in the Cold War and post-Civil War context, it argues that the intertwined state, parastatal and private initiatives, among which they had a hegemonic role, constituted the…
Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Criminology (4 works)