Equal among equals. Ukrainian women in historical and cultural context

P.(Velychko Yu P.) Jerelianskyi

doi:10.34064/khnum2-17.02

Abstract

Equal among equals. Ukrainian women in historical and cultural context

Highlights

■ The article is an attempt to define a very special role of women in society, inherent in only Ukrainian historical realities
The role and place that women take in the social structure is an extremely significant criterion for assessing the level of civilizing development of one or other society
It was the words “Equal among equals” that one could quite accurately define the positions of Ukrainian women in the glorious and tragic times of the national history – during the emergence and heyday of the Cossacks

Summary

Introduction

■ The article is an attempt to define a very special role of women in society, inherent in only Ukrainian historical realities. It was the words “Equal among equals” that one could quite accurately define the positions of Ukrainian women in the glorious and tragic times of the national history – during the emergence and heyday of the Cossacks. In Cossack times, but throughout the turbulent history of our country, Ukrainian women did not just “walk alongside of” their men, they often stepped forward, and their actions were decisive for the further course of 2019 ■ Вип.

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