Eleni Fourtouni

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Eleni Fourtouni was born in 1933, in Vassara, a village in the mountains of Sparta. In 1952 she came to the United States where she studied social studies and criminology. Soon after graduation she married and devoted the next fifteen years of her life to raising her son and daughter. Eventually, she became interested in other things also, especially women and their place in the world. When not in Greece, Fourtouni lives with her children in New Haven, Connecticut.