This chapter will take up several of the themes delineated in earlier chapters. One of these is the continuing project of interrelating social, economic and political circumstances and cultural practices. A second is the process of social power, especially the definition of what is ‘imaginable’. A third is the development of some understanding of the cultural construction of gender in both meanings and values and in practices through which these values are expressed and embodied. Several other themes are also woven into this analysis – for example, the interplay between the subjective and objective and the possibly distorting effects of particular perspectives and analytic frameworks. To this end, I propose to observe the observers, to ask how gender relations have been represented in recent studies of modern Greece. As Paul Rabinow put it, representations are also social facts and deserve scrutiny (1986). Feminist writers have made major contributions to questioning of this kind, from Juliet Mitchell's Woman's Estate (1971) to the complex critiques of phallocentric discourses that have attacked the linguistic and philosophical foundations of self-evident authority (see Pateman and Gross, 1986).