Women who become men? The sworn virgins in Albanian traditional culture
Between the end of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, many travelers and scholars who traveled in the mountainous areas of Western Balkans Dinaric Alps were fascinated by the presence of women who looked, in varying degrees, masculinized: the sworn virgins or virgjineshë. Th...
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Università degli Studi di Cagliari
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Anuac |
| Online Access: | https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/1789 |