Post by Jaga on Aug 10, 2007 22:44:01 GMT -7
This seems to be a fascinating story based on reality of women in Albania. I did not know about it before. The movie was made based on it.
here is some information about it:
Dones, who lives in Rockville, had just met an adherent of an ancient northern Albanian tradition in which women take an oath of lifelong virginity in exchange for the right to live as men. The process is not surgical -- in these mountains there is little knowledge that sex-change surgery is even possible. Rather, sworn virgins cut their hair and wear baggy men's clothes and take up manly livelihoods as shepherds or truck drivers or even political leaders. And those around them -- despite knowing the sworn virgins are women -- treat them as men.
from:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/10/AR2007081002158.html?hpid=artslot
here is some information about it:
Dones, who lives in Rockville, had just met an adherent of an ancient northern Albanian tradition in which women take an oath of lifelong virginity in exchange for the right to live as men. The process is not surgical -- in these mountains there is little knowledge that sex-change surgery is even possible. Rather, sworn virgins cut their hair and wear baggy men's clothes and take up manly livelihoods as shepherds or truck drivers or even political leaders. And those around them -- despite knowing the sworn virgins are women -- treat them as men.
from:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/10/AR2007081002158.html?hpid=artslot