The Lyceum Club of Greek Women 100 years

The Lyceum Club of Greek Women 100 years

Scientific editor: Efi Avdela
Athens 2010, 
511 p., 296 ill.
ISBN 978-960-244-147-3
€ 86.92
This collective volume, which commemorates the centenary of the Lyceum Club of Greek Women, the first organized women’s association in Greece with an uninterrupted presence in the social and cultural life of Athens and of the provincial towns where annexes were established, constitutes a detailed and penetrating presentation of the Lyceum Club’s historical itinerary. The 15 studies composing the book cover all the chronological phases of the Lyceum Club’s action, with a particular emphasis on its work and ideological orientations of the first decades, when the main axes of its action concerned the promotion of women’s issues and the respect and preservation of traditional forms of expression. The contribution is thus highlighted of the Lyceum Club’s founder, Callirhoe Parren, and of her successor, Anna Triantafyllidou, two strong personalities who determined the course of this women’s association and defined -each from her own ideological position- its manner of operating. The studies cover a variety of subjects: the Lyceum Club’s history, its ideological positions in the context of the international women’s movement, the constitution of the Vestiary, the promotion of Greek folk dances, the organization of the First National Women’s Conference in 1921, the assimilation of the concept of motherhood, the training and pedagogical procedures it adopted. The volume is further enriched with the inclusion of a chronological table, biographical notes on the Lyceum Club’s Chairpersons and the plentiful archival and photographic material.