Becoming a Woman-Man: Notes on the Phenomenon of Sworn Virgins in the Balkans
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The phenomenon of female cross-dressing and gaining the social role of a man has been witnessed in the tribal patriarchal society of the remotest parts of the Dinaric region since the nineteenth century. Once found within both Slavic and Albanian populations, today sworn virgins have been rapidly vanishing, and are rarely still found in northern Albania. The fact that occurrence was equally common among Orthodox, Catholic, and Muslim populations in the remotest mountain regions points to the phenomenon's ancientness. As women who aspired to the social status of men, sworn virgins did not cease to be women; only the “degree” of their womanhood or manhood varied. Examining this social phenomenon as a third gender, this article contextualizes it through Judith Butler's theory of performativity. It also focuses on the relatedness of the phenomenon to the ancient past, turning to existing theories, but also providing an original contribution to the third gender debate.
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Balkan / cross-dressing / Dinaric region / gender / sex / sworn virgins / tribal patriarchal societyИзвор:
Aspasia: The international Yearbook of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History, 2023, 17, 1, 73-93Издавач:
- New York : Berghahn Yournals
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- Министарство науке, технолошког развоја и иновација Републике Србије, институционално финансирање - 200173 (Етнографски институт САНУ, Београд) (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200173)
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https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/aspasia/17/1/aspasia.17.issue-1.xmlhttps://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/14997
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Етнографски институт САНУ / Institute of Ethnography SASATY - JOUR AU - Stevanović, Lada AU - Prelić, Mladena PY - 2023 UR - https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/aspasia/17/1/aspasia.17.issue-1.xml UR - https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/14997 AB - The phenomenon of female cross-dressing and gaining the social role of a man has been witnessed in the tribal patriarchal society of the remotest parts of the Dinaric region since the nineteenth century. Once found within both Slavic and Albanian populations, today sworn virgins have been rapidly vanishing, and are rarely still found in northern Albania. The fact that occurrence was equally common among Orthodox, Catholic, and Muslim populations in the remotest mountain regions points to the phenomenon's ancientness. As women who aspired to the social status of men, sworn virgins did not cease to be women; only the “degree” of their womanhood or manhood varied. Examining this social phenomenon as a third gender, this article contextualizes it through Judith Butler's theory of performativity. It also focuses on the relatedness of the phenomenon to the ancient past, turning to existing theories, but also providing an original contribution to the third gender debate. PB - New York : Berghahn Yournals T2 - Aspasia: The international Yearbook of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History T1 - Becoming a Woman-Man: Notes on the Phenomenon of Sworn Virgins in the Balkans SP - 73 EP - 93 VL - 17 IS - 1 DO - 10.3167/asp.2023.170105 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_14997 ER -
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Stevanović, L.,& Prelić, M.. (2023). Becoming a Woman-Man: Notes on the Phenomenon of Sworn Virgins in the Balkans. in Aspasia: The international Yearbook of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History New York : Berghahn Yournals., 17(1), 73-93. https://doi.org/10.3167/asp.2023.170105 https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_14997
Stevanović L, Prelić M. Becoming a Woman-Man: Notes on the Phenomenon of Sworn Virgins in the Balkans. in Aspasia: The international Yearbook of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History. 2023;17(1):73-93. doi:10.3167/asp.2023.170105 https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_14997 .
Stevanović, Lada, Prelić, Mladena, "Becoming a Woman-Man: Notes on the Phenomenon of Sworn Virgins in the Balkans" in Aspasia: The international Yearbook of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History, 17, no. 1 (2023):73-93, https://doi.org/10.3167/asp.2023.170105 ., https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_14997 .