Polly Thanailaki
Chapter 1. The Curse of Athena- Female Illiteracy in the Greek Countryside.- Chapter 2. ’Caught in the spider’s web’. Women’s schooling in the rural communities in Italy and in parts of the Balkans.- Chapter 3. Hera, the Greek Goddess of Marriage: A Comparison Between Greek and Italian Peasant Women.- Chapter 4. Spreading the ’Word of God’. Women- missionaries and Protestant Education in the Balkans, Greece and Italy.- Chapter 5. Demeter, the goddess of the harvest: Women’s social life in the villages.- Chapter 6. Euterpe, the Muse of Music: Women’s Position as Seen Through Folklore Songs and Dances (19th to Early 20th Centuries).- Conclusions.