Original scientific paper

Maca Jogan ; Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

The author discusses the question of woman's dignity as a problem inseparably connected by social structure and its continuous processes of (re)production of class and gender unequality. The general feature of past and present societies (and male dominated cultures) is namely the secondclass and subordinated social position of woman, legitimized mostly by her natural« role.
On this basis of the heuristic model, which discovers the connection of class and gender domination, author presents the patriarchal construction of woman's marginality and subordination by help of the image of Virgin Mary (in Slovene society at the end of 19th century). By another's estimation, the latest document of the Catholic Church include similar (basically patriarchal) pattern of woman's earthly behavior; this means that these explanations do not support the structural social changes in favour to the shaping really equal possibility for woman in all main spheres of life.

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Hrčak ID:

36467

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/36467

Publication date:

9.5.1991.

Article data in other languages: slovenian

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