Full Description
Examines women's food cooperatives and local dining venues on the Greek island of Lesvos and how tourism, gender, and sexualities inform the creation of these alternative economies.
Winner of the 2023 Gourmand Cookbook Award for Greece in the Women Category
Imaginatively interweaving literatures across a variety of subjects, Sappho's Legacy identifies the crucial role that islands and Greek economic culture play in teaching about capitalism's failures and alternatives. Marina Karides delivers a historical and ethnographic account of food cooperatives and microenterprises on the Greek island of Lesvos following the 2008 financial crisis to reveal the success stories of grassroots, traditional, and community-centered economics organized by people marginalized on the basis of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. Karides offers hope to others who are working against the tide of neoliberalism and heteropatriarchy to develop alternative or convivial economic practices that serve communities by providing a trail of rhythms from ancient times to the present that showcase Greece's historical resistance.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Part I:
1. Prolegomenon
2.The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
3. Of Greek Islands and Microentrepreneurs: Neoliberal Battles and the Marginalization of a Nation
Part II: The Rhythm Section
4. For the Love of Strangers and Enterprise
5. The Seasonal Agora: A Gender-Placing Rhythm and a Sexualized Sense of Space
6. Island Food Systems: Lessons for the Continent
Part III: Hospitable Shores
7. Skala Eresos: From Ancient City-State to Bohemian Seaside Tourist Village
8. Lesbian Place-Making and the Imperial Gaze
9. The Women's Cooperatives of Lesvos
Coda
Works Cited
Index
