For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town

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Summary: if only it had been in english
Review: I'm giving this three stars, rather than one, because of the inherent interest of the topic and place and the author's apparent fitness for her task. The intersection of sexual behavior, LOCAL sociology and the conflict of norms between Podunk and the cosmopolis that has been characteristic of Greece for the last two or three generations, and all this described by a trained social scientist rather than a beach weeker or a sex tourist: how could you fail to have an interesting story?
By writing the book in a language that is spoken by no one. Kirtsoglou has written her book in one of the most unendurable mishmashes of postmodernist, postmarxist, englishacademiotic gibberish I've ever seen. I tried dipping into this screed in twenty different places and could never get more than two paragraphs before I grounded on the bizarre jargon that seemed crafted for the express sake of ugliness, if not incomprehensibility .
If you routinely read stuff written in this argot, you may find it valuable as she certainly seems to have properly investigated her topic. If not, skip it and wait for it to be translated into standard English.