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Kinship Metaphors

Summary/Abstract: The essay will study the nature of the highly controversial debates on gender and why understanding women as active subjects of culture—a perspective that aims to challenge the established and persistent metaphors of femininity—is met with such strong opposition. In addition to examining the sources for this resistance, it is equally important to understand the position that confronts the community ideas rooted in tradition and associated with the existence of nation, and to propose its fundamental revision. The communal and nationalistic way of thinking, as well as religious, refer to a taken-for-granted statement that a set of norms and values ascribed to a particular gender exists in every culture. It is also connected with the position of women and men in different cultures. Some people protect these culturally-fixed norms, other attempt to revise and transform them. This conflict is an essential part of contemporary “culture wars,” understood as a war over morality and collective good.

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