Dowries in Greece: dowry contracts in Ioannina during the early twentieth century

Michaleas, Spyros N; Sergentanis, Theodoros N.

doi:10.1080/1081602x.2019.1641129

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“…1-2;Rodd 1892, p. 92; see also Parren 1887b; Stott 1973, pp. 126-7;Du Boulay 1983;Alexakis 1984;Couroucli 1987;Caftantzoglou 1994;Franghiadis 1998;Petmezas and Papataxiarchis 1998;Kasdagli 2005;Hionidou 2011;Varikas 2011;Michaleas and Sergentanis 2019). As well as furniture, clothes, homeware, or cash, dowries could consist of livestock, one or more pieces of land, and/or a house, depending on the parents' wealth (regional differences, however, affected the type of dowry that girls received).…”

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“…Moreover, ensuring that their daughters married was a primary obligation for families, and whether families succeeded in doing so depended on how generous the dowries were. Higher endowments were paid if the marriage was a step up the social Sex ratios and gender discrimination in Greece 3 ladder (Michaleas and Sergentanis 2019). The exact amount was often subject to bargaining, and marriages were often seen as commercial transactions in which brides were judged primarily on the basis of the size of their dowries (Ferriman 1910, p. 141;Sanders 1962, p. 166;Lambiri-Dimaki 1972, p. 75; see also Miller 1905, pp.…”

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Sex ratios and gender discrimination in Modern Greece

Tapia

Raftakis

2021

Population Studies

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This paper argues that son preference resulted in gender-based discriminatory practices that unduly increased mortality rates for females at birth and throughout infancy and childhood in nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century Greece. The relative numbers of boys and girls at birth was extremely high and under-registration of females cannot on its own explain this result. The infanticide and/or mortal neglect of infant girls was therefore more common than previously acknowledged. Likewise, sex ratios increased as children grew older, thus suggesting that parents continued to treat boys and girls differently throughout childhood. A large body of qualitative evidence (contemporary accounts, folklore traditions, feminist newspapers, and anthropological studies) further supports the conclusion that girls were neglected due to their inferior status in society.

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Section: Gender Roles Dowries and Attitudes Towards Girls In Greecementioning

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Sex ratios and gender discrimination in Modern Greece

Tapia

Raftakis

2021

Population Studies

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Histoires de dots, de familles et de transmission de biens à Athènes

Bournova¹,

Dimitropoulou²

2023

Annales De Démographie Historique

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Cette étude sur la reproduction sociale de la famille et la transmission du patrimoine dans les familles de l’élite athénienne, pendant la deuxième moitié du xix e et les premières décennies du xx e siècle, se forme autour de quatre familles. Les deux premières familles sont des familles philhellènes installées à Athènes suite à la Révolution Grecque, soit une famille italienne de l’avocat Giuseppe Chiappe et une famille allemande du médecin-chirurgien Heinrich Treiber. La troisième est la famille du propriétaire foncier Michalis Patousas et enfin, la famille du pharmacien Christos Smyrniotopoulos. Ces familles ont des usages différenciés de la dot qui selon les contrats de dot dépouillés chez le notaire Dimitrios Vouzikis et le Bureau des Hypothèques d’Athènes, et contrairement à ce que les études suggéraient pour le début du xix e siècle, une fois sur deux concerne une maison ou un terrain à bâtir, deux fois sur trois elle comporte de l’argent liquide et presque toujours le trousseau. Dans les deux premiers cas des familles philhellènes, le contrat dotal rencontre la ferme volonté familiale d’organiser l’ensemble du processus de transmission intergénérationnelle ; dans le deuxième cas, la dot s’impose au père de la mariée comme instrument d’une union qu’il técuse; dans le cas du pharmacien, elle permet non pas d’organiser tout le processus de transmission mais d’assurer au moins la succession à la tête de l’officine en installant le gendre. Cette variété de pratiques dotales est aussi le reflet de la variété des acteurs et des configurations familiales. Pourtant, notre étude montre que déjà au dernier quart du xix e siècle, les coutumes locales des différentes régions se sont homogénéisées dans la capitale.

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Dowries in Greece: dowry contracts in Ioannina during the early twentieth century

Cited by 2 publications

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Sex ratios and gender discrimination in Modern Greece

Sex ratios and gender discrimination in Modern Greece

Histoires de dots, de familles et de transmission de biens à Athènes

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