CONSTRUCTING GENDER IN ROMANIAN PROVERBS
CONSTRUCTING GENDER IN ROMANIAN PROVERBS

Summary/Abstract: Constructing Gender in Romanian Proverbs. In Romanian proverbs, the woman is evil, lazy, shrewed, weak, talkative, but she can also be beautiful, diligent, good, honest and still she is not like a man. Anyway she does, the woman stays in a man’s shadow, even if she reaches the superior limits of her abilities, this will only mean the inferior limits of men’s abilities, all these proverbs seem to be transmitting to us through time. They undoubtedly come from a past reality – most of them were gathered and published in collections at the end of 19th century – though it is impossible to find a period of origin. More important is the fact that they prove some valability today and this denotes a too little or no change at all regarding the attituted towards woman and her perception in society.

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