Shaping Gender through Beliefs: Ukrainian 19th Century Beliefs and Productive Marginalization in a Context of Gender Construction

• In Event: Historical and Contemporary Practices of Taboo Making and Taboo Breaking in Ukrainian and Mongolian Folklore

Abstract

Perception of gender varies on age, occupation, and status of an individual. At the same time, in pre-modern society deviations from commonly accepted statuses bring forth beliefs towards the deviated individual. The paper looks at gender perception and its disruption as a folkloric phenomenon as the one that is supported, surrounded, and constructed by beliefs entailing productive marginalization and endowing with power.

Author

• Alina Oprelianska, U of Tartu (Estonia)