Family plots: bio-medical discourse, gender, and familial/marital relationships in the modern Greek fiction of the 1920s and 1930s

Bitsiani, Eleni (2022). Family plots: bio-medical discourse, gender, and familial/marital relationships in the modern Greek fiction of the 1920s and 1930s. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Abstract

The present dissertation titled “Family plots: bio-medical discourse, gender, and familial/marital relationships in the modern Greek fiction of the 1920s and 1930s” consists of three chapters and is designed as a wide-ranging comparative study of bio-medical themes and concepts (degeneration, eugenics, and biological determinism), gender issues (domestic and social life, education and work, and sexuality), ties between family members and spouses, as well as parental figures in Greek family narratives published between 1920 and 1939. As such, the thesis examines and compares the various ways in which the fictional texts under consideration discuss the aforementioned issues; while also exploring the extent to which fiction from this period interacts with bio-medical and feminist discourses, as well as with contemporary cultural and legal shifts, and the various ways by which it acknowledges the realities of the interwar historical background.

Type of Work:

Thesis (Doctorates > Ph.D.)

Award Type:

Doctorates > Ph.D.

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