К вопросу о социальном статусе женщины в чеченской традиционной семье
On the issue of woman’s social status in the traditional Chechen family

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the issue of woman’s social status in the traditional Chechen family. The research is based on historical as well as ethnographic materials. The attention is paid to the meanings of words which used to denote a woman’s status as her social role was being transformed. Woman’s rights on conclusion as well as dissolution of marriage are mentioned. The author proposes his own view of the space occupied by women in Chechen families. The scholar comes to the conclusion that Chechen people used to respect and revere women as daughters, sisters, wives, mothers as some kind of domestic goddesses.

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