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Gender-bending in Balkan history and folklore: Sworn virgins, ritual roles and women warriors in drag

By Global Voices Central & Eastern Europe

In the Balkans, tradition is often deemed to be fixed and patriarchal. Yet the region’s history, folklore and popular memory contain more complicated examples of the fluidity of gender roles.

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