„МАЖОТ Е ГЛАВАТА, АМА ЖЕНАТА Е ВРАТОТ“ (или за некои аспекти на родовата анализа на македонската народна култура)
„THE MAN IS THE HEAD, BUT THE WOMAN IS THE NECK.“ (Or On Some Aspects of the Gender Analysis of the Macedonian Folk Culture)

Summary/Abstract: Gender analysis of the Macedonian folk culture helped us to reveal the standard patterns and behaviour norms that men and women practice and experience in the frames of the traditional folk culture of the Macedonians and the other nations residing in Republic of Macedonia. The paper involves research on the relations between gender and patriarchate namely discusses the patriarchal model in Macedonian folk culture, as well as stereotypes of the woman and her identity in the folk tradition. Nonetheless the paper is trying to identify whether the patriarchate is the only one responsible for the discrimination of the woman and the undisputable domination of the man. In the attempt to present different approaches, the paper is dealing with the concessions from the patriarchal model and some cases of its non existence. In that context the paper reviews the relation between gender and Eros, through remarkable examples of folk creations with erotic content. The paper also deals with the issue of canonisation of the Macedonian female folk singing, where weíre emphasising the role of the talented female singers and narrators of the Macedonian folk creations as the first female authors in the Macedonian history of literature, i.e. the role of the woman as holder and transmitter of the Macedonian folk culture.

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