ABSTRACT
This chapter examines recent discourses on the position of women in Greek Orthodoxy, and shows possible changes in thinking and acting on the issue. One of the most powerful collisions of Greek Orthodoxy with modernity came via its enforced encounter with women's issues. Greek women theologians have proven to be great mimics of androcentric models of thinking on religious matters, because they mainly preferred a model of representation of the self that emphasized otherness' rather than commonalities' with their sisters in the West. Together with the rest of Greek women, they seem to carry on their backs the weight of the nation. Their stance, however, is not one of gender blindness, but rather one that reveals women's strategy and agency. Greek Orthodox women may feel discriminated against by the male church hierarchy, its decisions and admonitions or by still existing traditions. Greek Orthodox women are both mimics and transformers, both Greek and European, exhibiting a distinctly Greek stance.
